Kotkaniemi to the AHL!

As it should be. We can start the party ))) and your description is pure gold



A potential 1C/2C for Chicago Wolves next season?

Yup, have to think our forward lines will look like this in the playoffs (If svech gets his head out of his rear end I'd love to switch him and martinook). Definitely a higher chance we move on from KK this off season than I had thought a couple weeks ago.

Guess he's a 5C now

but why? according to some people here he's a promising center and is better than Staal
ok seriously, even a buyout won't do much damage to us. 800,000$ per 12 years is nothing considering that salary cap will be rising year by year

He called him a 2C

ELITE 5c

Okay yeah I was told no way yall move him and Staal was way more likely to get dealt... what is the actual value you would look for if he was dealt?

How do they move on? I don't think teams will be lining up. Maybe an Arizona or SJ takes him, but I'm not so sure. Feels like I situation where you have to make it work somehow.

bottom teams like Chicago, Arizona or San Jose can take him for future consideration cause they will have about 40 million of space. Especially Arizona with Voracek's and Little's contracts ending. Any other teams with space will take him only if we pay picks.



Future considerations will do if you don't want us to pay

I’d be happy if they just got out of his contract clean, no retention. So were it me, I’d dump him for future considerations and slot Drury in as the 3C/J Staal eventual replacement.

However, I’m not sure the Canes would dump him so soon. He is still young enough and has shown some promise as a decent player. (You’d also have to find a team that still believed in him and was willing to take on that deal. I think he’s young enough still where that isnt yet impossible) However, their cap situation and the players with expiring deals coming this summer likely means that they need to be rid of either Kotkaniemi or Kuznetsov to re-sign/replace enough players to stay at the level they have been at. Clearing Kotkaniemi’s $4.8M makes that much easier.

He'll be picking up lots of checks.

Flames have lots of cap space and need a centre

Kadri, Sharagovich, Backlund, Roony

They really dont need and if they do go get someone in FA

I got a feeling its gonna maybe lean to a buyout

Like go look at the number its stupid good for the Cane's to lean to it

I'd rather see sharangovich back on the wing.

Is he that bad or if kept to like 3rd line defense only role or does he suck at too was thinking he might be a potential 3rd line C for years for Vancouver playing alongside like Podkolzin. But if he's that bad.

Who won the OS war? At least we aren't paying KK almost 5 mil to sit in the press box lmao

He can be very hot…ppg through the first 13 games this year and he played at a 60pt pace for the latter half of last season. But also very cold…pretty much since the first 13 games he’s been ice cold.

He’s still reasonably defensively responsible and decent with faceoffs, but otherwise he’s just there. Not really contributing much. He certainly has shown, in limited stretches, that he could be a very good top 9 player. He just makes too much $$$ for what he brings to the Canes and since they have Drury, who’s completely outplayed Kotkaniemi and will be much cheaper to re-sign, I think Kotkaniemi will eventually be the odd man out.

Thanks so much. In the offseason what do you guys think of a return like Aman and a 4th to get out of his deal. Aman is defensively responsible 4th line C/PKer. He's shown okay offense in the A but hasn't translated and isn't overly physical (has size but mostly small bumps not hits)

lol you are paying dvorak 4,5 million for being in hospital for the whole season you shouldn't talk

also we are a playoff team with Aho being a superstar and you are not

Sure we paid Dvorak 4.85 to be on IR but that pales in comparison to paying KK 45 mil over 9 years just cause your GM and owner were babies about an OS being signed by Aho, that's when you let emotions dictate business decisions though lmao.

Oh wow that hurt so bad, imagine a rebuilding team not making the playoffs, that's the end of the world for sure LMFAO

@Caniac2000 😉

This can't be! @Caniac2000 told me he's a high end 3C at worst!

Big Breakout candidate here... Can go from 5C to 4C next year!