Re: Hurricanes offer sheet Kotkaniemi
Originally Posted by
Axeman33
Interesting listening to Freidman on 31 Thoughts today about this.
He said a few interesting tidbits. First, he said Carolina really likes the player and tried trading for him. He also said it wouldn't surprise him if Carolina gave Montreal a heads up that this was coming and also he figures they're already discussing the next deal with Kotkaniemi. Maybe more term, less cap hit.
He also said Montreal could take some time and try and shop the picks and figured Arizona and Dvorak could be a target of theirs for those picks.
I won't lie, if I'm Carolina, I'd have rather traded the picks going out here directly to Arizona for Dvorak than losing the picks and paying the big cap hit to Kotkaniemi. Hard to say but my preference for Carolina, who EF states are looking for a center, would be Dvorak over KK but that's me. Maybe Carolina already tried the Dvorak route.
Hope this will happened. But why Arizona try to sell Dvorak, he have a nice contract at 4,5M$ for next 4 seasons ?
1) 16 teams full keeper H2H. Start 9F, 4D, 1G, 2 Championships
pts: (D : 7 pts G /5 pts A), (F : 5pts G /3 pts A), (G : 10 pts W / 5 pts SO), (D/F : 1 pt +/-, 0.5 pts PIM, 0.1 FOW, 0.2 Hits, 0.3 pts SOG, PP and SH).
Forward : Aho, Svechnikov, PLDubois, Giroux, Couture, Wheeler, Cozens, Karlsson, Vrana, Anderson,Greenway,
Defenses : Dahlin, Fox, Doughty, Toews, , Slavin, Miller
Goalies : Oettinger, Vanecek, Bobrovsky
Prospects : Dostal, Schmid, Chinakhov, Bordeleau, Ostlund, Brindley, Gulyayev