ironyisadeadscene wrote:
the flint journal says the wings are going after parise AND suter, and will make significant changes to the roster. FWIW.
I hate the Wings, so I'm biased, but I think they're talking out there asses. The only roster moves made that will effect the roster significantly are Lidstrom retiring, Quincey being a dick(or some GM), and Stuart moving on. They shouldn't want any of these things to happen. Otherwise, they will not gain any significant cap number without a trade, which wouldn't be in their favor. If they're smart, they pay Hudler, Helm, and Abdelkader as opposed to overpaying a tier 2 free-agent.. Losing Holmstrom hurts the club more than the $1.8M it gains them in cap. Ya, so either they're talking about shopping Zetty or Pavel for whatever they can get for them, or it seems like they're TOTA. I see them to have $3 or 4m in cap space to spend, w/o giving away salaries(which hurts you in a trade).
As for Buffalo's situation, they look better, and I'll tell you why I think so. Buffalo has tradeable players with deals that are better than we'd like to think moving forward. Here's what teams will have to spend next year,
http://www.capgeek.com/index.php?charts_year=2012. Vanek and Luongo(maybe even Leino) WILL be moveable in that market seeing the free-agent pool will be wasted money for sure this year, beyond a couple players. By simple supply/demand, it looks like good roster players are in demand, and they will be demanding good salaries. The bottom 11 teams are sitting on over $150M cap space right now! Another reason I believe Buffalo is in better shape is because Pegula told Darcy to go out and try stuff. I'll guess that means he'd bury anyone who was dumb enough not to get a NMC(ya you Ville), which I believe he will do w/o a 2nd thought. If he throws $100M at an establishment he doesn't even own, then I guess he'd spend $25m on a call-up player on his OWN FRANCHISE. Trade/hide Roy and Leino, that opens up $85M to offer Parise to come play in hockey heaven with his bro, Drew. Way simpler than people would like to think it is. That or be the new guy in Detroit's fading glory(no offense, but they're aging). For those who forgot, Terry ate over $5 this year, so why would he be afraid to do less going forward. Also, I think Leino is a steal on re-entry waivers for 2.25, so cut that number in half, please. Re-entry waivers may become more frequent now that Terry's around, lol.