Quoting: NickC1988
The value is not there. Ceci is a pure cap dump, Bjorkqvist is a tweener prospect the hawks have a ton of. There's no reason for Chicago to pull the trigger on this.
Pure cap dump.............omg your over reaction is just unreal. Can you get out of homerism fantasy land and back into reality?
Ceci burried in the AHL is basically a nothing of a cap hit, and the contract ends this year. Not some mystical time in the future. He's basically a body to replace Z for this year, which helps Chicago on their way to trying to pick 1st overall. Which appears to be their goal anyhow.
So to have this over inflated sense of "Ceci is a pure cap dump" ... is just horse ****.
It's not a real cap dump. He's a body thrown in. If you don't want his cap hit, send him to the AHL. Problem solved.
Like I said it's a prospect and draft picks. The 4th liner isn't worth much of anything, and Z is probably worth a 2nd.
You seem to think they are worth more than they are. These are average players. While some of them hold more value to a team than others, lets not pretend they are worth an arm and a leg.
No GM is looking at it that way. Truth be told Chicago is basically in rebuild mode anyway. The draft pick is probably more useful to them now than anything else.
Toews, doesn't want to play for a team that puts no effort into winning, and Kane is like 1 foot out the door at this point. As I don't see a guy who's 32 wanting to stick around and waste his last few years on a bottom feeder that has no chance of winning a damn thing. He'll be 33 next year. What's he got 2 years of keeping up at most. Guys start to struggle around 35, the age catches up to them. Hell even at 33 guys are slowed down. Come summer he probably wants out anyway and this team is like who cares tank and build.