Backes to BOS.

most likely does. vegas will take him and he will not take murray in expansion draft as a deal with ruth when leaving
- martox

Imagine if Rutherford makes us lose Murray and Botteril next year? Lose the guys that will be around for almost 2 decades for guys on their last legs, that will suck.

Rutherford signed a 3 year extension. I'm happy to be wrong about him leaving soon.

Imagine if Rutherford makes us lose Murray and Botteril next year? Lose the guys that will be around for almost 2 decades for guys on their last legs, that will suck.
- Dcoms

A little early to worry about this.....don't you think? I'll never worry about losing an assistant GM.

Backes to BOS.
- rocheccw

5 years, 6M per

Blackhawks sign Brian Campbell. One-year deal

5 years, 6M per
- cap1681

Okposo to Buffalo, 7 years, 6M per

So none of you actually know how much bottlecap actually does, but Ryan Wilson assumes he does a lot so we NEED to keep him around. Is that the jist here?

5 years, 6M per
- cap1681

so many buy out candidates in 2-3 years. thank god we have a full roster and no cap space.

Botterill isn't the only talented assistant GM in the NHL - it's not a given that he's the choice.

Botterill is similar to Omar Khan. He's a salary cap/research/fine print guy, while Rutherford is the big picture guy. Botterill is still in a pretty nice spot even if Rutherford stays for three more years. He's young.

The Penguins are kind of stacked in the front office anyhow, plus new ownership might want to hire their own people.

Brower to Flames 4 years, 4.5M per

Okposo to Buffalo, 7 years, 6M per
- cap1681

Was there some lesson Buffalo failed to learn from the original Matt Moulson, that they go ahead and overpay massively for Matt Moulson 2.0 ?

So none of you actually know how much bottlecap actually does, but Ryan Wilson assumes he does a lot so we NEED to keep him around. Is that the jist here?
- Grinder47

bottlecap handles all our cap problems. if he was not here some trades would not have happend

Was there some lesson Buffalo failed to learn from the original Matt Moulson, that they go ahead and overpay massively for Matt Mouslon 2.0 ?
- ab1

Bergeron - Kredji - Backes

Thats a heck of a 1-2-3.

Wow. I'm envious of exactly none of these deals.

and I thought contracts were going to be lower this year.....this might be the most over spending Ive ever seen. Okposo is not worth $6m/yr, neither is Backes.

Was there some lesson Buffalo failed to learn from the original Matt Moulson, that they go ahead and overpay massively for Matt Moulson 2.0 ?
- ab1

Well said. I think this is going to be a bust and is a significant over payment, IMO.

E. Staal to the wild. 3 years. $3.5M AAV.

Staal to Min 3 years, 3.5M

Wow. I'm envious of exactly none of these deals.
- madmike71

even if we dealt maf and kunitz, id want no part of these deals.

bottlecap handles all our cap problems. if he was not here some trades would not have happend
- martox

Because noone else in the world can solve cap problems? Sounds like a glorified calculator to me. Ill stick with JR.

Why are people posting the contracts... just look at https://twitter.com/TSNBo...mp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
and be happy with that lol...

E. Staal to the wild. 3 years. $3.5M AAV.
- rocheccw

At 3.5 mil per year, I'd gladly take him over kunitz