Winterton est le dernier debout ! A noter, dès Hockey de la ville d’émeraude:
Après avoir renoncé à Hayden et Mahura, la liste du Kraken est tombée à 21. Ils dépassent toujours le plafond d’environ 49 000 $.
Ils devront déplacer quelqu’un ou faire une coupe supplémentaire (probablement Winterton) d’ici mardi.
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alienbanter
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Starting the season with a 20 man roster, I bet. Good to get those guys through waivers while everyone else is still making decisions on their teams. If one of them is claimed they could still get a replacement on the waiver wire tomorrow or Monday.
I saw someone post this on Twitter, but this could just be to get them through waivers now to avoid risking losing them later in the season. I think once a player clears waivers they don’t have to go through it again to go between the NHL and AHL for 30 days or something.
You put them on waivers now when every team is trying to cut guys, hope they clear, and then you have 30 days to figure out a trade if you want to make one to free up cap space. I do think that only carrying a roster of 21 players is not sustainable long term as it severely restricts your flexibility if a player gets injured during warmups or is suddenly sick and you don’t have time to fly someone up from Coachella.
Winterton is still young enough to be waivers exempt so they can keep him on the roster until the official NHL roster deadline and then send him down worry-free. His contract alone puts them over the cap because it is not league minimum so I do think he will get sent down eventually.
Didn’t we just sign Mahura from the Panthers? 🤣
A 20 or 21 man roster, when no one is being paid like a superstar, is the result of poor cap management. We say now that there is plenty of time to make the big decisions come the trade deadline. But if Kraken are playing meaningful games at the deadline, there will be no appetite to sell, probably
It might be a strange season
hopefully keeping Tanev and gambling these two clear waivers isn’t going to bite us in the ass. It doesn’t make sense in my book.