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Now add a center to the team that is better than the current next in line option Kozak.

Extra term in exchange for a one way deal?

My only impression of his is that he absolutely sucked on a bad team in Chicago. I'm not so sure a bad team should be adding a guy who struggles while playing on a bad team. Shortsighted probably, but that's where I am right now.

3 years is interesting. He's one of those guys who I'd expect to see accept the QO, a short term deal hoping to earn a pay raise quickly.

They do that for the same reason that they get rid of an almost 40 year employee... to cut costs. That's business and it's nothing new. Just look at Dundon casting off two broadcasters that dated back to the Whaler days shortly after buying the Hurricanes. $$$$$$$$$$

I'm so out of touch with the contract numbers at this point, but that Vancouver goalie situation is odd to me. I guess $13 million isn't crazy for a pair of goalies. $4.5 million feels pretty pricey though for a backup. And then they've got 4 years of that locked up (1 cheaper year for Demko until the extension kicks in). I guess one gets moved at some point because I have a hard time seeing a full 4 years of that tandem.

Darcy inherited each of those players. He then sent 3 of them packing within 2 years of taking the job.

This whole thing is absolutely crazy. going to be a never ending list of things that were considered but wound up not happening. This is the internet and the 24/7 news cycle driving us to the point of insanity.

Are you not reading stuff here? Every day is pitchforks and torches day.

I doubt that was an issue at all. Ottawa actually took on slightly more money from Gilbert’s contract. That deal goes through just fine in both sides if the defensemen are removed. There had to at least have been some interest from one side or the other on one of those guys.

If they move UPL they need to bring in another goalie. They need a 3rd and then probably one more for Rochester.

So is the idea that teams add players they don’t like? It’s an odd statement to be making.

That’s not the question though, is it? The best of the batch was Zucker.

They signed 8 players on 7/1 last year. Half were for the NHL and half for Rochester.

I just throw it out there as a possibility. Honestly I could see it going either way at this point. I could see a scenario where the additions the other day have made him expendable in their minds… or other upcoming plans could as well. But at that price tag, there’s almost no cost to keeping him around.

It also contradicts the rest of the list, but I guess you don’t get clicks by opening with that one.

No active negotiations could also mean that the deal is already done.

Well not officially... not for 2 hours anyway.

So are we upset now because he passed on a deal that we wouldn't want to see him make?

Gilbert didn't add any value for that deal. The sabres didn't want him and he was an extra body for the blue line just in case a 2006 happened. He played 4 games for Ottawa. That doesn't explain any of the Bernard-Docker stuff though. The Sabres clearly had some interest in him at that point.

Translation: He'll be ready come playoff time. One last run under the old rules!

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Don’t give them the benefit of doubt for doing something the have a decanted history of doing? They did it with Bryson last year and I just figured out the other one I couldn’t remember… Jost a couple years back. And that was a mid season addition too.

The contract itself may be less in total dollars (or the same), but you know what the qualifying offer has that this hypothetical contract doesn’t? The QO is probably two way.

Worst case scenario he's in the AHL. There's no reason to let him walk. I fully expect to see him signed tomorrow.