NHL Transactions, Injuries & Rumours

[thom54]

should trade for dustin brown then

[thom54]

... DAL trades Goligo's rights to ARI for a 5th ...

Arizona?

[Bruyns]

Could still sign elsewhere too

[Arian The Insider]

Goligoski to Florida in UFA, A4

[Bruyns]

Talbot to KHL

Baertschi 2 years 3.7M

[Matthew]

So the las Vegas expansion team will be in the Pacific division?

[thom54]

RJU officially bought out (billy you're correct).

C'mon Columbus bring him back in a cheap Pk'ing role.

[The BBKL Insider]

Did the leafs officially buy out cowen?

[thom54]

yep.

[Fraser]

Kopitar named NHL LA King's Captain. No word on what BBKL Blue jackets have decided.

Wouldve liked to have seen DD

[Matthew]

Sounds like the cap this year will be about 73 million and that includes the escalator. Which means it will go up ~ 1m overall.

[Chuck Norris]

SO THOM CAN STOP ANNOYING US WITH TRADE OFFERS!!!

Dave Isaac of the Courier-Post: The Philadelphia Flyers will be buying out R.J. Umberger.

“You don’t want to make rash decisions at the end of the season but that’s the way we were leaning,” Hextall said. “We need the space and I think it is probably better for R.J and for us.”

Umberger had one year left on his deal, but will now carry a $1.6 million cap hit next year, $1.5 million in 2017-18. The move will save them $3 million next year.

“There were two parts to the trade essentially,” Hextall explained. “The one was the space. I felt like two or three years from then it was going to be good for us, and I feel the same way now. Hartsy’s been a good player in Columbus and R.J. didn’t play as well as we hoped and certainly didn’t play as well as he hoped. There were some health issues there as well, so in terms of the deal right now I feel like it’s a benefit for us. We need space, we’ve got guys that are coming up like (Shayne Gostisbehere) and (Brayden) Schenn and (Radko) Gudas. We need space.”

[kyuss]

Sounds like the cap this year will be about 73 million and that includes the escalator. Which means it will go up ~ 1m overall.

more like 1.5 m! #difference

[thom54]

I have had some pretty amazing offers on RJU, holding him tightly

[Bruyns]

Vatanen 4 X 4.875

[kyuss]

Welp, that makes my recent trade less concerning

[thom54]

YES! ! ! ! (also guessed it would be ~5 million)

[Nick]

Amazing contract IMO

[kyuss]

More expensive that I thought actually. Does it buy yrs of UFA though?

[thom54]

it does, he was coming off a 2 year bridge deal. I think it buys ... 2 years UFA but i'm guessing honestly.