Teams Could Be Making Moves Sooner Than We Think
Dave Pagnotta of The Fourth Period joined Sirius XM NHL Network Radio’s Power Play with Steve Kouleas and Craig Button, and he was asked once we might see teams this season pull the trigger on trades.
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Craig Button: “Okay, so we moved past the Pittsburgh Penguins. Sorry, David, we don’t move past the Pittsburgh Penguins. We move past Sidney Crosby. At what time limit do you anticipate and Pittsburgh is just one among these teams, we hear about Bryan Rust. We hear about Rickard Rakell. We all know that Kyle Dubas desires to push the youth there, because that’s what they need to do. Where do you see the demarcation point for these teams across the league, Rasmus Andersson in Calgary, for these players to perhaps have more prominence by way of trade talks?”
Dave Pagnotta: “Everyone knows that U.S. Thanksgiving, that timeframe has traditionally been when teams feel comfortable with fully evaluating their squad. And I feel it’s a mixture, especially lately, within the cap era, that teams, yeah, they mark that, but they will’t really do an excessive amount of, because everybody’s against the cap. This 12 months is somewhat bit different, and I’m curious to see how a few of these clubs utilize their space.
Typically, teams will wait, they’ll push, they usually’ll attempt to accrue more cap space by adding a player afterward within the season. Yes, everyone knows that the cap game has modified somewhat bit, especially come playoff time you bought to ice your roster or lineup that game needs to be cap compliant, this, that and the opposite. However it still gives teams and teams have more flexibility this 12 months to do it, plus a number of teams are cap compliant and have the additional space to play with quite a bit earlier than they’ve had up to now.
And I feel depending on how a few of these clubs go like I feel all of us all know what direction Pittsburgh goes to go in. If the Calgary Flames, for instance, you mentioned Rasmus Andersson, if things don’t work on the market in the primary 15-20, games of the season, do they engage more seriously in talks in the sooner a part of the 12 months? That’s what I’m curious to see.
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And I feel there may be a way that a few of these teams are willing to a minimum of escalate a few of those talks early. Ultimately, they got, they’re those that need to pull the trigger. We expected a busy offseason. We got nothing. So things obviously it takes two to tango. These guys are going to need to; these managers are going to have to come to a decision when to ultimately pull the trigger.
But I do anticipate in talking to people across the league, it appears like teams are more willing to have those more serious talks sooner within the season, because so many teams have that cap wiggle room
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