That's so bad for Carolina... a low first round pick, some other picks and 3 players who aren't worth a damn for Staal at 3 million? Wow.

And that NTC next to Scuds' name means he won't go to a team like Carolina anyways. And it's not listed on this site, but Kunitz also has a NTC, and he wouldn't go either.

I wish people would stop pretending we can ship off our garbage and act like the details of their contracts and the circumstances of the teams who receiving them don't matter.

And by circumstances of the other teams... I mean Carolina is a relatively small market team that can't spend to the ceiling every year. They can't waste over 7 million in cap space and salary (Scuds, Kunitz, and Bennett) on players that NO ONE in Carolina will even buy a $15 player t-shirt of. And then what's the probability of that LOW first round pick being a player worth anything? They don't make their money back. Their is no future for them in that deal. Bad risk. And ontop they are retaining 3 million of Staal's salary? A team would never accept that trade.

Come on dude... I'm sure they thought critical thinking (or rather just common sense) at your school.

Thank you Mr Hibbits. You have detailed the reality of the difficulty trying to extradite one's team from bad contracts. Just imagine if the deal went thru as Stormm indicated, Pens would have a roster of 21, and just half a million to spend.