Yes. Yes
Sign Roussel

Where's spooner?

wayyy too much money for Roussel. He'll go for under 2 on a 2 year deal.

@sagecoll well as you can see the NYR have a boat load of cap, 3.5 is to ensure Roussel signs with us over a team offering a little bit less.

@RJA Spooner rights would be traded, probably for a 2nd round pick next year

You don't throw an extra 1.5+ mil to ensure bottom 6 players sign with you. You throw that at JVR to ensure he signs with you...

Well I think Roussel gets more than 2 mill first off, so it'd probably be a mill higher than market value. Nothing Gorton has done in the last 8 months would make me think they are going to get in the JVR sweepstakes (even if they did, we still have 7+ mill in cap). Gorton going for 1-2 year deals on vets who can help bring along the young guys, and he will have to overpay for players to leave term on the table.

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Vancouver closing on a 4 YEAR 3.5 Mill contract with Roussel.

You sure with aligning yourself with Jim Benning on a contract everyone around the league is calling excessive is what you want to do?

Really glad the Rangers didn't go for him at that price.

On a 2 year deal? When you have buckets of cap, yea its not a bad deal.