Matt Walker clears re-entry waivers
by Travis Hughes on Dec 2, 2011 12:15 PM EST
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Rue the day we applaud the fact Matt Walker is a member of the Philadelphia Flyers again, but that's the situation we're in today. He's cleared re-entry waivers, and Paul Holmgren has dodged a serious bullet. He's been called up from the Phantoms and will be available to Peter Laviolette tonight in Anaheim.
Had Walker been claimed on waivers, which we estimated at about a 50/50 chance a day ago given the need for depth at defense around the league, the Flyers would have been saddled with $850,000 against the cap for this season and next.
Instead, they have to pay his $1.7 million against the cap while he's still here, but we know he's just going to be headed back to Adirondack on regular waivers once Chris Pronger and Erik Gustafsson return from injury. So really, it's not a huge deal.
Either way, I still hope Kevin Marshall and Marc-Andre Bourdon continue to play well, because that means we don't have to see Walker on the ice. Let's just leave him in the press box as a really expensive insurance policy, shall we?
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We have enough cap space without anyone going down, right? I keep having these nightmare scenarios going through my head in which Brayden Schenn gets sent down for some stupid reason.
I <3 our rookies.
They’re fine for now, until players start coming off LTIR.
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by Travis Hughes on Dec 2, 2011 12:20 PM EST up reply actions
Man. I hate the cap. Why can’t everything be like baseball?
I guess I should say, I hate being constantly at the cap limit. It’s stressful.
I <3 our rookies.
by LeepinLizardz on Dec 2, 2011 12:25 PM EST up reply actions
I’d rather be fighting with the top of the cap than the bottom of the cap…
by OrangeNblacK on Dec 2, 2011 12:41 PM EST up reply actions
Oh definitely. But I’d rather the Flyers leave a tiny cushion of space under the cap, just in case. And as Eric points out below, they have done just that, with 200k left after everyone gets back. So, that’s pretty cool I guess.
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by LeepinLizardz on Dec 2, 2011 2:11 PM EST up reply actions
And they’ll still be fine then, since Walker didn’t get claimed.
A roster of Briere-Hartnell-Giroux-Jagr-Voracek-Talbot-Simmonds-Schenn-JvR-Couturier-Shelley-Read-Zolnierczyk-Rinaldo, Timonen-Pronger-Meszaros-Carle-Coburn-Gustafsson, Bryzgalov-Bobrovsky is $200k under the spending limit. And it has 14 forwards, so if a D gets hurt, swap Zolnierczyk for Marshall.
Had Walker been claimed, you’d have to remove Zolnierczyk from this roster and then there wouldn’t be room to call someone up for an injury, which could mean that Schenn has to go back to the AHL at some point. But he wasn’t, so it’s all OK for now.
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I’m not. Teams aren’t really in terribly direct competition, so their moves are dominated by their self-interests more than trying to hurt another team.
It’s one thing if the Penguins thought adding Walker would improve their roster. But if they think he makes them worse, then I don’t think the negative impact on the Flyers would be worth it to them, because a lot more than the Flyers stand between the Penguins and the Cup.
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if they think he makes them worse
All they need to do is watch some video of his play to understand that point.
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by MaximumTalbot on Dec 2, 2011 2:43 PM EST up reply actions
If a neighbor you hate had a watchdog that cost $100 a week to feed would you take it from him if he offered to pay for half the food, knowing that he was going to have to get another watchdog and pay for that?
Oh, also, your new dog shits all over the rug.
/s, more often than not
by flyersfaninchicago on Dec 2, 2011 1:04 PM EST up reply actions
That rug really tied the room together too
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by boknows71 on Dec 2, 2011 2:14 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Questions: I’m sure these were probably covered but I’ve been out of it for two days now.
When we send him down he doesn’t have to go back on waivers right?
If we send him down and need to call him back up, he has to clear again?
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He has to go on waivers no matter what. Every time he comes and goes.
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by Travis Hughes on Dec 2, 2011 12:31 PM EST up reply actions
Thanks.
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by KreiderDesigns on Dec 2, 2011 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
Re-entry on the way back up, so available at half price. Regular waivers on the way down, so full price.
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by Travis Hughes on Dec 2, 2011 12:53 PM EST up reply actions
Can they just send him down repeatedly (without calling him up) until someone gets desperate enough?
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by MaximumTalbot on Dec 2, 2011 2:44 PM EST up reply actions
They can put him back on waivers every 30 days or 10 games played.
But it’d be easier to just call around every day and say “hey, want Walker for an 8th round pick in the 2097 draft?”
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Maybe, but just clearing the roster spot and salary regardless of method would be OK anyway … oh, sorry Andreas.
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by MaximumTalbot on Dec 2, 2011 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
Hypothetically, let’s say someone did claim Walker through re-entry and the Flyers would be on the hook for half his salary…what would happen if the team that claimed him on re-entry waivers decided to waive him again? If he clears waiver again and ends up in the AHL for another team, are the Flyers still on the hook for half the salary?
They still have to pay it, but I think it comes off the cap. The Stars fell below or were in danger of falling below the Cap Floor when Avery was sent to Connecticut, but now that he is back up with the Rags he counts against their cap for 1/2 a hit.
by hebrew hammer on Dec 2, 2011 2:12 PM EST up reply actions
Which is dumber: sneaking Walker through recall waivers or putting him in the lineup tonight? I go for the latter.
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Sneaking him through is dumber. He’s probably better than Marshall or Bourdon at the moment, so the only argument for playing the kids is we want them to develop/see what they got.
Keeping alive the old Vaudeville joke, "I'd rather be dead than play Philadelphia."
He’s probably better than Marshall or Bourdon at the moment
I wouldn’t let them hear you say that.
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by MaximumTalbot on Dec 2, 2011 2:45 PM EST up reply actions
I’m just tired of Matt walker being shit on because someone offered him more money than he’s worth. It’s getting out of control.
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Oh, I understand that. For all the shit I drop on Hartnell, in his shoes I’d have taken the contract. Same with Walker – when someone offers you money for being yourself, you don’t say no.
That said, saying the kids aren’t as good as he is might be demeaning to them. They also haven’t had the chances to excel he has. He’s 31 with 11 years of pro experience; they’re both 22 with just a couple years of pro.
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by MaximumTalbot on Dec 2, 2011 2:52 PM EST up reply actions
Right. That’s the counter-argument (and the argument I prefer)—you play the kids to see what they have. That doesn’t mean that playing Walker is stupid, because Walker IS good enough to play in the NHL.
Keeping alive the old Vaudeville joke, "I'd rather be dead than play Philadelphia."
Here’s what I don’t understand about automatically assuming someone who has played in the NHL is good enough for the NHL but someone who hasn’t isn’t:
How much better is a #7 NHL defenseman than a #1 AHL defenseman? What makes one guy a #7 and one a #8? Why is that difference the all-important “NHL defenseman” vs. “AHL depth guy”?
For his career, Walker has never played more than 66 NHL games in a year, he has a career 5.7 GVT (average of 0.8 per season), and many other less than good attributes.
He is the definition of replacement player. It’s not only about his contract, it’s that the gap between him, Bartulis, Lilja, Syvret, Gustafsson, Marshall, and Bourdon is so very, very small.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 3:16 PM EST up reply actions
You DARE to include DSOD in that list? Go iron your typing fingers.
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by MaximumTalbot on Dec 2, 2011 3:21 PM EST up reply actions
I completely agree. My suspicion is he’s slightly better, but that the margin isn’t large, and I’d rather see Marshall/Bourdon/Gus/Bartulis. I think they are all bubble players, frankly, as any COULD be 6/7/8 or an AHL 1/2.
I was saying this in response to “Playing Walker instead of Bourdon or Marshall is stupid.”
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Understood. I don’t think it’s stupid either, I just think it’s the wrong call.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 3:52 PM EST up reply actions
That is, I wasn’t saying “Walker is an NHL defenseman and Marshall/Bourdon aren’t,” I was saying “the hate for Walker is ridiculous because he is capable of playing in the NHL at nearly the same level or a slightly higher level than Marshall/Bourdon.”
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Ah, then we agree entirely.
That was a little rant of mine as your comment reminded me of an old argument with M.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 3:53 PM EST up reply actions
Why did they give him all of that money??? Wasn’t there tapes that showed he wasn’t that much better than almost every other #7 or #8 D man.
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by Christopher A on Dec 2, 2011 5:38 PM EST up reply actions
Lightning GM Brian Lawton on signing Matt Walker:
"Matt is the big, physical, intimidating presence that we lacked on the blue line last season," said Lawton upon making the announcement today. "He is a high-character, team-first player and he demonstrated that last season, going right back in a playoff game after suffering an ugly, ugly broken finger. He is just the type of player that we were looking for to fill a specific defensive need."
Big, physical, intimidating, high-character, team-first, broken finger.
Brian Lawton didn’t need to look at the tapes of him playing to sign Matt Walker. All he needed was this blog post showing how tall he is and how scared the two women look behind him.
Lawton was fired immediately after the season.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 5:56 PM EST up reply actions
Not sure how you can compare a second-year pro with 8 career NHL games to a nine-year pro with 313 NHL games statistically.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 9:14 PM EST up reply actions
Someone break his femur. Please and thank you.
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Actually, just give him a virus that causes surgery and an 18 month rehab.
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I’m telling you pronger is pregnant, he has all the symptoms
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Knee surgery comes with pregnancy? Man, I really don’t know anything about having kids.
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I think that if you pass through waivers and never get claimed by any other team your contract should automatically switch to a two-way deal. Thats only fair to the Club and the player gets his money either way.
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A two-way deal means a player makes a separate amount of money in the AHL as he does in the NHL.
What you’re suggesting is that a player become waiver exempt. But why would the player want to give up his right to be offered to every NHL team before being banished to the AHL?
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 1:29 PM EST up reply actions
Because (in this case) he’ll likely be forced to move, and then be banished to the AHL.
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I don’t follow. He’ll likely be picked up by another team who will only then put him in the AHL? They can’t do that without putting on waivers again.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 1:41 PM EST up reply actions
Sorry for not using /s font.
I was suggesting he will burden any organization (even for half price) and as soon as they get another option (top 7 returning from injury) he will be stashed away again.
I’m just riding the Walkerbash.
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Ah, okay. Now I get it.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 2:38 PM EST up reply actions
Since we’re discussing it though, if Team 2 does put him on waivers, and then tries to bring him back again on re-entry waivers but he gets claimed…Does Team 2 pay 1/4 of his salary and Team 3 pay 1/4?
How’s that work?
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So you’re saying what happens if a Team 3 comes up and takes him? In that case Team 1 pays 1/2, Team 2 pays 1/4, and Team 3 pays 1/4.
That’s what they were saying when Sean Avery was getting sent back up through re-entry waivers earlier this year, at least. Makes sense.
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by everybodyhitswoohoo on Dec 2, 2011 2:19 PM EST up reply actions
Okay yes once you pass through waivers back and forth once your contract should become waiver exempt. It’s not being banished, he gets his salary either-way and if no one wanted you on the way down and back again especially at 1/2 price it’s not the franchises fault.
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Why would the NHLPA want that, though? Just because nobody wanted him in December 2011, why would he give up the opportunity that somebody wants him (due to injury) in March 2012? Or December 2012? Or March 2012?
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
Geoff sometimes the truth hurts, right! And the NHLPA only cares about the salary and he won’t lose that in either league. I just think if no one wants you the first time oh well. I know on different occasions teams might have different needs but he is inevitably going back down again sooner then later.
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You really think the NHLPA only cares about the money? Players don’t care if they’re in the AHL or NHL?
Since you love asking the players, you should go ask Matt Read and Michael Leighton if they would switch teams. If the answer is something other than “Whatever, I get paid the same either way”, you lose.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 3:18 PM EST up reply actions
I’m not stupid your right they want to play in the NHL, but it would make these things so much easier. How about add a clause that if you pass waivers both ways once and your contract becomes waiver exempt, AND the teams sends you back and forth one more time you get an option to opt out or get free agency.
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If they opt for free agency, they’ve more than likely ended their careers, I’d think. Nobody wanted them when they were available on waivers, why would anyone want to take them via free agency? Just call it retirement.
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It gives a guy the chance to solicit other teams without the constraints of contract and waivers.
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I don’t get it.
You’re saying that when a guy gets called up to the NHL for the second time, he should have the option to opt out — that’s your concession to the players?
So you’re thinking that Matt Walker, upon being called up to play in the NHL for $1.7M, might think “nobody wants me for $850k, but I think I’m going to opt out of this deal and see if I can sign for $600k with a team that might want me in the NHL, instead of playing for $1.7M with the team that just called me to the NHL”?
That option doesn’t seem like a tremendous concession to me. I don’t see the NHLPA being excited about it.
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The only reason he isn’t on the Flyers roster as the #7 D-man is his cap hit. So if he is given the opportunity to basically renegotiate so that he can be more easily fit in under the cap, I think that should be up to him. What is the negative impact for the NHLPA? The fact that teams will be threatening to waive players who refuse to renegotiate? I guess that’s a pretty strong reason.
by hebrew hammer on Dec 2, 2011 3:44 PM EST up reply actions
That isn’t the only reason. Since 29 NHL teams were offered him for $850k and still said they don’t want him.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 3:53 PM EST up reply actions
What is the negative impact for the NHLPA?
M is proposing to make such players waiver-exempt, so they are giving up their current obstacle to being moved down at all.
If players would regularly opt out of their deal, then making them waiver-exempt is pointless, because they’re basically self-waivering at that point. If players wouldn’t opt out of their deal, then you’ve offered them no meaningful concession in return for what they’ve given up.
I just don’t see how it makes sense, particularly since I don’t see anyone opting out of their salary when they are being called to the NHL in the hopes that they can get another team to play them in the NHL for much much less money.
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Yea, it obviously makes no sense at this exact moment. I guess I modified it a bit, thinking that when Walker inevitably gets waived again, and goes unclaimed, you have to wonder whether he would be willing to accept less salary to stay in the NHL on another team.
by hebrew hammer on Dec 2, 2011 4:02 PM EST up reply actions
As always, the brokers win – market up or market down. They’d simply charge ‘transaction fees’ every time the player moved from one specific payment clause to another (eg. NHL to AHL).
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by MaximumTalbot on Dec 2, 2011 4:33 PM EST up reply actions
Was is regularly about this walker situation? It doesn’t happen everyday with every team.
And, If a guy is determined to play in the NHL and prove his worth in the league he has that option to try it with a team willing to give him in his mind a better chance to prove he is an NHL player. If he does prove it then maybe he would get bigger money from that team.
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And the free agency period isn’t enough, we should find ways for teams to force players to rip up their own contracts?
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 4:25 PM EST up reply actions
Hey in this situation it would work out for the Flyers.
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I’m shocked that this situation, where the team gets to put someone in the AHL whenever they please without waivers or get a guy to rip up his own expensive contract helps the team.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 5:31 PM EST up reply actions
Wait What? After the first trip down and back the team would not have to worry about losing the player and paying half of his salary until the end of contract and be able to move him back and forth as needed. Win for the Flyers
If Walker gets pissed enough about it and wants to try to pick up with another team who is going to give him a chance to play and he walks out on his 1.7 million contract. Win for the Flyers. And win for Walker at least in his mind because he is proactively moving along on his career.
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You see this as a win for Matt Walker.
That explains it all. “Matt, nobody wants you for $850k. But what we’ll do is, we’ll let you rip up a $2 millionc ontract for next year just so you can see if anybody wants to pay you $600k.”
WIN!
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 5:57 PM EST up reply actions
If playing in the NHL is important to him and the Flyers aren’t giving him the opportunity, yes it’s a win for Matt Walker if he has the confidence and pride. But if it is about the money and his agent tells him no one is calling about when you opt for free agency he opts not to walk and collects the 1.7 either riding the pine or riding on buses. Again the option is totally the players.
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What don't you get? :-P
I figured it would be placating to the ego of the professional athlete who thinks a team is just screwing with his career and he could get a better shot at playing in the NHL somewhere else. And again it’s an option the player gets to choose. If he would rather take his 1.7 million and play in the AHL it would still be his right.
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Just like deciding between being waived and waiving their NTC is the player’s option to choose?
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, but we’re talking about a player who’s just been called up to the NHL at his $1.7M salary, who knows that no other team wants him at $850k.
If nobody else wants him at $850k, how confident can he be that any team will be willing to keep him in the NHL permanently? How many guys are there who make you say “yeah, I don’t want him on my roster at $850k, but at $600k he’d be an 82-game NHLer for sure.”
If you’re Matt Walker, when the Flyers have just called you to the NHL for $1.7M, are you going to say “nah, I think I’m going to see if anyone else wants me in the NHL for $600k”?
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If your Matt Walker and they keep jerking you around, back and forth from the NHL and AHL at the end of the season you might think to yourself I need to get into another franchise because these guys aren’t taking my career seriously. And then it would be his option at the end of the year.
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And then you remember “Shit, no other NHL team wants me for even half of what I’m making, which just so happens to be market-value for a third-pairing NHL defenseman.”
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 6:00 PM EST up reply actions
A guy like Walker could basically get a new contract at a lower cap hit making him a better value in the NHL.
by hebrew hammer on Dec 2, 2011 3:32 PM EST up reply actions
Although we would give up a lot of money just for a chance at a less than certain role in the NHL.
by hebrew hammer on Dec 2, 2011 3:34 PM EST up reply actions
Panotch: “Matt, how does it feel to know that 29 out of 30 NHL teams believe that you’re not worth half your salary?”
If only someone asked him that.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
Matt: “I don’t know, Panotch. How does it feel to actually not be worth half your salary?”
/s, more often than not
by flyersfaninchicago on Dec 2, 2011 3:37 PM EST up reply actions
So when do you try and sneak Bartulis through the grapevine. Was Walker passed over simply because he blows and not worth the salary, or because there isn’t a need for a depth defenseman at this point in time?
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Probably both. And really is anyone hot for Bartullis? Other then our comedic romance with his nationality is he really any good anyway?
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considering the money and youth, I’d say he’d be a good pickup
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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on Dec 2, 2011 2:44 PM EST up reply actions
Bartullis? They should try to trade him and see what they can get if he is stuck in the minors due to waiver rules.
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I think you have to re-entry Bartulis before you can offer him in a trade. No one wants to pay an AHL D-man that much/run the risk of re-entrying him themselves.
Keeping alive the old Vaudeville joke, "I'd rather be dead than play Philadelphia."
OHHH. So the AHL/Waiver status stays with you no matter what. I didn’t know that.
Commenter formerly known as M from Pdaddy, but still just Call Me "M"!
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Ok, but the chance wasn’t 50/50. I get that we are accentuating the risk so people can understand why it was a dumb move, but the risk itself was not that high. It just had consequences way out of whack with taking that mostly-unnecessary risk.
Keeping alive the old Vaudeville joke, "I'd rather be dead than play Philadelphia."
As Travis says, “we estimated at about a 50/50 chance”. How do you know it wasn’t 50/50?
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 3:20 PM EST up reply actions
I just don’t think you have to estimate the risk much there at all, and repeating the estimate from yesterday’s post shifts the focus. The real point is that there would be consequences and the risk is inessential.
Keeping alive the old Vaudeville joke, "I'd rather be dead than play Philadelphia."
Once again, upon extrapolation, we agree.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 2, 2011 3:54 PM EST up reply actions
Is there a different type of waivers that let’s you buy out a players contract if nobody claims him? If not, there should be. That way, he still gets his money, and then would be a UFA and can go sign with another team for a much friendlier cap hit without losing all the money from his contract.
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