Quoting: Radu47
The nedeljkovic situation seemed really anomalous... a weird panic meltdown from a notoriously bad general manager... making a truly hideous decision
They still have 5M$ cap space after Svech 😑
Anynow I digress a bit
Quoting: tea
well it was a 3rd and bernier, but ik what u mean. nedeljkovic was worth a whole lot more than a 3rd, even with bernier, but the canes did not have faith in him for some reason. i think that says more about the canes as an organization than it does about nedeljkovic.
While I didn’t agree at the time and still don’t, I also don’t think it was a simple and straight forward of a situation as it’s alluded to in these forums. Paying a goalie or spending to the cap wasn’t the issue. At the core, this front office never trusted Ned and historically haven’t treated him great (didn’t get a shot in the past, was waived, etc).
Ned wasn’t willing to sign the deal he got in DET in CAR even if they offered it to him so it’s likely he would go to arb and get a higher AAV which the Canes didn’t want to be stuck with. They also think he’ll regress back to his mean across his career which historically isn’t great or consistent. They think the team in front of him and a hot run contributed to his play which isn’t entirely unrealistic (but I still think he’ll be a capable starter in the league).
Ned is absolutely worth more than they got for him and I think they really undervalued him. Instead of shopping him around and potentially getting closer to arb they jumped at the first lowball offer that came their way. I just think there’s a lot of layers to this situation and while the return wasn’t great I doubt the Canes are getting back a first or high end pieces for Ned either.