“At the end of the day, in a cap system, you have to make decisions”, Treliving said as he addressed the media prior to Saturday’s Flames game against the Ottawa Senators. He has 155 goals and 406 points in 657 games and won a Stanley Cup in 2008 with Detroit.
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“It’s a couple of guys we have to fit into our lineup for what we hope will be a long haul”, Florida coach Gerard Gallant said.
There may be a time of reckoning for the Panthers, as they only have four picks remaining in the 2016 Draft but, right now, they are a better team, with a chance to do something in what appears to be a relatively wide open Eastern Conference (*behind top-seeded Washington). “The reality of the contract situation we have here now and the contracts we have upcoming, uncertainty with where the cap number is going to be, whether it’s reality that we’d be able to get Jiri back here”.
Kindl recorded 68 points in 273 games with Detroit, plus has played in 19 playoff games.
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) – Florida added three players with postseason experience to its roster on Saturday, and did so without having to give up anything other than draft picks. Purcell has 11 goals and 32 points in 61 games.
The Panthers sent a second-round pick in this year’s Entry Draft and a fourth-round pick in 2018 for Hudler.
Kindl has six points in 25 games this season for Detroit. I believe that this is a win for Detroit, a potential win for Florida, and a win for Kindl.
Tallon was allowed to take a cavalier attitude at the trade deadline this season by ownership, which hasn’t always been the case since he took over the team as general manager in 2010.
Kindl and Hudler each is from the Czech Republic, as is Panthers’ leading scorer Jaromir Jagr.
It is the second trade of the week for Treliving, who shipped Markus Granlund to the Vancouver Canucks on Monday in exchange for 2013 first round pick Hunter Shinkaruk. Tallon said a lot of behind-the-scenes work went into the moves.
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Added Tallon, “Who says we’re done?”
