DeAngelo bought out

[senryu]

Per the Flyers' Twitter account today


Philadelphia Flyers
@NHLFlyers
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We have placed defenseman Tony DeAngelo on unconditional waivers.

Friedman says that waivers is for the purposes of buying out the contract.

[kovalchuk17]

Carolina runs a tight ship I respect it. Now they can probably get him for like 1-2m again without giving up an asset.

I also wonder how this effects a potential Erik Karlsson deal. If Carolina signs TDA, no way they get EK right?

[Selanne13]

Good news for Cam York owners i guess

[Pengwin7]

I think the TonyD to CAR thing fell apart as soon as CAR & Orlov agreed long-term.

Cap space became too tight even to take TonyD at $2.5m.
For PHI, tomato-tomahto... the buyout hits them with $1.67m this year & next.
That's a smidge more than the $2.5m hit (50% of his $5m) this year... which they likely would've also had to *pay* to get rid of.
It's not like PHI can do anything productive with their cap towards playoffs either year.
It actually probably works better for them to manage a more distributed cap.

Win/win here.
CAR gets Orlov and can still see if they can finagle a move for Karlsson.
PHI ditches TonyD... because they were able to open their buyout#2 window simply by... get this... having Noah Cates file for arbitration*.

*Tidy little loophole there.

TOR will pull the same thing with buying out Murray as soon as there is an RFA-arb number (or contract agreement) with TOR & Samsonov.

[tweetdrivr]

I thought the buyout window was closed…

[pmorrow]

2nd buyout window appears after a team has a player who has filed for arbitration is signed or its arbitrated. Noah Cates in this case.

[tweetdrivr]

I thought that was August.

[Russian Rocket 10]

Is Ryan Ellis healthy?
If so, would he have first crack at QB-ing the 1st PP?

[pmorrow]

I thought that was August.

I think it's triggered when the matter is resolved. Cates signed his extension instead of going to the arbitration hearing, which opens the window for 72 hours.

[RizzeeDizzee]

Is Ryan Ellis healthy?

If the answer is yes, it probably won't be for long. Too bad, because he had a lot of talent. I wonder whether, even if he gets back to full health, he'd even be a semblance of the same player again. Him and Jake Gardiner were both sad stories in that regard.

[RizzeeDizzee]

Landing spots I could see for DeAngelo are SJ, if Karlsson is moved, Washington, if Carlson isn't his old self, or maybe even Chicago.

[chuckcouples]

Landing spots I could see for DeAngelo are SJ, if Karlsson is moved, Washington, if Carlson isn't his old self, or maybe even Chicago.

Or absolutely nowhere which is where he should be.

[jhonny]

Poison to a locker room. If I were Chicago, I'd hard pass. Bedard will already have to deal with keeping a patient and focused mind in a losing atmosphere for 2 years. No sense throwing a gas can on that fire. Maybe he can go to Columbus since they collect dmen, lol. Unites the 2 Jersey boys... one good kid and one a-hole - same home town (my home town actually).

[stevegamer]

Noah Cates even helping the team in the offseason!

Landing spots I could see for DeAngelo are SJ, if Karlsson is moved, Washington, if Carlson isn't his old self, or maybe even Chicago.

I vote for Chuck Fletcher's driveway. Driveways are where locker room cancers belong.

Fletcher might be the worst multi-team GM in NHL history. It's hard to get a second job with a new team when you are brutal the first time around... and do worse.

[4T2]

Just curious, are there any actual reports of assholishness from his time in Philly? Maybe I haven’t been paying close enough attention but I didn’t see him making much (bad) news during his time there