Souray Placed On Waivers
by rmc235 on Jul 2, 2010 1:23 PM EDT
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As per TSN:
The Edmonton Oilers are giving the NHL's 29 other teams a chance at acquiring Sheldon Souray, as the team placed the veteran defenceman on waivers on Friday.
Souray signed a five-year contract in 2007 that was supposed to see him in Edmonton through the end of the 2011-12 season, and the 33-year-old's no-move clause has expired.
Now I have two reactions to this. Souray has two years remaining on his contract that pays him $5.4 mil per year. My first thought? Naturally, don't go after him. Right now the Rangers have a defense, barring any changes, consisting of Rozsival, Del Zotto, Staal (assuming a deal is agreed upon), Girardi (same), Redden, and Gilroy. That is six defenseman. With the defense in the system, if there is ever a need for a 7th defenseman, the option is not Souray.
Looking at this take place, one has to wonder, if Edmonton can waive Souray, why can't the Rangers waive Redden? Sather has stated that putting Redden in the minors is an option that they will have to consider. And without rambling further, let's say Redden is put on waivers, clears it and reports to the AHL. Souray is not an option to fill his spot. Also, let's imagine another scenario in which a trade involving one of our defenseman occurs. Souray again, is not an option to fill the hole.
That is my short opinion on the matter. Thoughts?
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You might remember that our dear friend at capgeek.com explained the six years of pain we’ll suffer, if we dump him in the minors too quickly. At the risk of being obnoxious, I’d take the hit, but I’d need the one-time waivers again to be successful at remedying the Redden situation completely.
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having redden burn us like an STD for the next 8 years is not worth it we ae not talking like 800k or something its like between 2.5 and 3.5 million thats half way to a first line forward and added to the rest of the gross over payed contracts it hurts bad. so the only option is to put him in the minors IMO.
I think its 1.9 million over 8. If the cap continues to rise the pain will be less. I would have liked a Souray for Redden deal, cap freedom in 2 years as opposed to 4 and would have made the Boogard signing unnecessary. Slats rational for signing Boogard was Hank got snowed too often and now according to him it won’t happen.
by Kmp on Jul 2, 2010 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions
If Sourey can NOT make it on the worst team in the league…..why would we want him?
Reddon is going no where.
But, my blood pressure is going up watching our idiot GM this week.
totally disagree .
you can never have enough defence look at the flyers they are loaded top to bottom .all those devil teams that won cups with guys like odelein fetisov albelen. i say snag this guy cause he will just go to another team that won.t really use him like we can .
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