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by Paul on 09/19/09 at 08:01 AM ET
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from Dirk Hoag of On the Forecheck,
The good news for Predators fans is that GM David Poile was prepared to add a multi-million dollar salary to his roster, without sending a current player back in trade. While that budget might have had a little extra allowance considering that an elite, 21-year-old goal-scorer was on the market, this is a sign that Poile is indeed in a buying mood.
So what do the Preds need, and what’s available? Obviously a goal-scoring winger would be nice, but depth on defense is also a concern. As much as the organization touts the development of Alexander Sulzer, Cody Franson, and Teemu Laakso, it boggles the mind to think that the Preds seriously plan on relying on three rookies in the 5-6-7 spots on the defensive depth chart.
Combine that with the tremendous turnover in penalty killing personnel, and I’ll toss a name out there that I’d like to see the Predators sign - not at all a replacement for Kessel, but a guy who can bolster the 3rd pairing on D and soak up the PK minutes so that Hamhuis, Suter and Weber don’t have to.
His name? Greg de Vries.
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They could have signed Marian Hossa, Martin Havlat, Todd Bertuzzi and Jason Williams and still been under the cap.
youre naive enough to believe any of those players would want to go play there. thats why theyre 14 million dollars under the cap. i think nashville is in a pretty good spot. they have kids to ween along and have tons of cap space to eat up players once the cap drops and teams in cap trouble have to erase high contracts.
Posted by Death Metal Nightmare from MKE on 09/19/09 at 12:33 PM ET
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Obviously, if there’s something the Predators desperately need it’s an aging, middle of the roster dman.
Seriously, is being a Preds fan like owning a 2001 Grand Am and thinking ‘Gee, what I really need is to take the car in and get it detailed”?
Good God, Dirk. Nashville is over FOURTEEN MILLION DOLLARS under the cap. If they could afford to get better, they’d get better. They could have signed Marian Hossa, Martin Havlat, Todd Bertuzzi and Jason Williams and still been under the cap.
The reason they weren’t able to land Kessel is that I guarantee they weren’t willing to go over 4.5 mil for him, because for whatever reason the Preds have seemingly decided that’s the biggest yearly cap hit they’ll ever take on for one player, and unless they could get Kessel to sign an extention there’s no way it’s worth moving three picks to get him.
Posted by HockeyinHD on 09/19/09 at 09:41 AM ET