Darryl Shannon's +/-

Paying some of the salary to sweeten the pot is the only way left to game the system and get more draft picks. That money may have gotten us the extra 2nd next year. Similar to taking on Kotalik in the Regehr trade. I know Pegula receives his fair share of criticism, I think he's doing everything he can financially to help the team. That's assuming we're paying some of Vanek's salary....

On the face of it, it appears we got a more durable player who has similar production in the past 4 years along w/ a 1st and 2nd. For what appears to be a rental for the Isles. There has to be money behind the scenes of this trade....maybe we're eating 2-3M of Vanek's salary this year? He's making 6.4M in real money this year.

I wonder if Moulson was thrown in as a way to make the salary portion of the transaction work?

Consider it 2 firsts and a second (after we deal Moulson at the deadline). Not a bad haul for a UFA who supposedly is destined for Minn. A better haul than was gotten for Rick Nash, right? I'm also betting Terry is paying a large amount of Vanek's salary to maximize the benefit.

I'm holding out to vote on him because I feel it's way too early. I was impressed with the salvage work he did with this roster last year, yet bored to tears with the style of play that resulted. Curious to see how he deals with all the youth in the lineup, and the organizational plan for it. Last year I feel he played a lineup that gave him the best chance to win (playing Porter and Flynn a ton). Will he have Grigs on a short leash out of fear for his own job, or does he have assurances from up on high that we can deal with growing pains? On an unrelated note, I liked Lindy for his interactions in the media and thought Ron held up the same way after the dust up in Toronto.