Avery

Most analysts assume that it is just assumed that avery is going back to NY. When Dallas puts him on re-entry waivers tomorow teams will get a chance to claim him. They will give the worst team in the league a chance to claim him and then work their way up to the best team in the league. NY currently has 2 more points than the vancouver canucks so if the canucks lose tonight they will have the opportunity to take avery before NY. I want to calculate how much it will cost the canucks to take avery as a rental player, and then buy out his contract at the end of the year.

Avery is making 15.5 million for 4 years with Dallas. when dallas buys out his contract they will have to pay avery 2/3 of his remaining contract over the next 8 years. the team that picks avery up will only have to pay half of avery's remaining salary. This amounts to just under 2 million dollars for the next 4 years. but if you bring on avery and he is a complete mess to the team, this is how much it will cost to buyout avery at the end of the season. 12 million remaining on his 3 year contract (but dallas is paying half of that so you only have to pay 6 million. Buy that out (6 *(2/3) over the next 6 seasons. 4 million dollars over the next 6 years, starting at the beginning of next season. That would be a price of $666,666 over the next 6 years. I am not joking. Mathematics has proven that Sean Avery must be the devil.

-hark

Pitssburgh/Anaheim Trade

Whitney to Anaheim for Kunitz and some young guy i've never heard of. (heres the link to find out his name.)

I really don't see pittsburgh's logic in this move. pittsburgh's biggest weakness so far this season has been on defense. They had Gonchard and Whitney out for most of this season so far. And even once Whitney got back they were still losing a lot of games. I don't think they are necessarilly weak on offence considering they have 2 of the top 3 best point producers in the league. if anything, they should be looking to take on a defenceman rather than trade away their second best defenseman. Whitney had 13 points in 28 games and was a good puck moving defenseman.

Whitney will fit in well in Anaheim who already has neidermyer, pronger, beachamin. Maybe this is a sign that Anaheim is going to trade pronger because why else would they acquire a d-man?

Pittsburgh does gain a lot in Kunitz. He had 60 points two years ago when the ducks had their cup winning season. He can probably put up some good numbers playing with crosby and malkin.

Pens, Ducks trade today,
will they now make the playoffs?
theres no fucking way

-hark