Stephane Yelle and Harrison Reed Sent to Colorado For Cedric LaLonde-McNicoll and Sixth Rounder
by Bob Wage on Mar 3, 2010 4:31 PM EST
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PrintThe Carolina Hurricanes just traded Stephane Yelle and Harrison Reed to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for Cedric Lalonde-McNicoll and a sixth round draft pick, in what amounts to another salary dump for the club. Jim Rutherford just confirmed that the team saved over two million in salary for the rest of the season after their deadline moves, but did they help make the team any stronger in the future?
McNicoll started the season in Charlotte and is in Lake Erie right now. He scored five goals and had eight assists in 45 games while with the AHL club.
Reed was drafted by the Canes in the third round of the 2006 draft and had minimal production for the River Rats this year.
We will also look at this a bit later after the dust settles.
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McNichol i thought he and his sister Christy
were really good in after school specials in the 70s
See ya, Scotty.
Me thinks Yelle wants to retire
a Nordique/Avalanche player
If the guys and gals who brought you the financial meltdown deserve big bonuses, where do I sign up?
What a Joke
This whole trade deadline has been a joke. The Canes improved ZERO, once again they have taken something and turned it into nothing. The only goal the Canes seemingly had this deadline was to fire-sale any player they could so they didn’t have to pay them the rest of the year. Cheap, Cheap, Cheap.
The Alberts trade is what gets me the most. Why trade away a decent defender who makes $700k a year for NOTHING? That is just stupid. This move was simply done to clear even more salary space.
That’s a great message they are sending to the fans. I’m sure they will draw another 5,000 fans while scrambling to save money and putting actually improving the team on the backburner.
So far I agree. The great and powerful JR fizzled and flopped yet again. We’ll see how it pans out, but very disappointing so far.
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disagree...
this team has a ton of talent in albany/charlotte that is just about ready to play. why clog the pipeline with new veterans in a year when we can’t win the cup anyway? save money and make a run at a big-name scorer in the offseason to play with staal.
How about trying to gain something instead of jetisoning ballast?
How looking for real talent to acquire?
How about shedding Cole, buying out Brindy the anchor?
Here’s anovel one, do something of substance?
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Stop with the Brindy bashing
Okay I am alittle tired of the Brindy bashing when it was not to many years ago now that MR. #17 came down from the Flyers and helped rebuild a sinking franchise who had nobody outside of an older R. Franchise, T. Kidd, and good old #24 Sami K later traded away.
To any event stop it all ready, Brindy is older and needs to retire which I believe is coming this offseason if not he is going to be released and could get a Yelle type contract next offseason if he chooses. Every great player gets old and it sucks for sure but stop it already.
Brindy is a hall of fame player in my book and to see #17 hanging from the ceiling at RBC Center is going to be great. #17, #10, #2 and hopefully Hedican’s #6 and in my opinon Irbe’s #1 belong up their as well one day.
by Holty_Panthers_Fan on Mar 3, 2010 5:32 PM EST up reply actions
Grow up and smell the dung. It’s Brindy’s play. He’s old and washed up he sucks. Wallow in what used to be if that’s all you can muster, but give me a break. The guys an anchor and should be cut off like ganggreen.
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I think we are pretty much stuck with his contract b/c of the age he signed it.
by CarolinaCanes on Mar 3, 2010 5:41 PM EST up reply actions
Paladin, your act is old
you can complain about the team without going ridiculously overboard and bashing a guy who has been a warrior for the team and for this city. Way overboard.
People who write things like that really ought to sign their name and address.
See ya, Scotty.
by DidJussiThat? on Mar 3, 2010 5:55 PM EST up reply actions
Why?
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to prove they aren't loudmouths
who hide behind anonymity.
So far, you prove the point.
See ya, Scotty.
by DidJussiThat? on Mar 3, 2010 5:59 PM EST up reply actions
Next time your in southwest Virginia drop me a note be glad to meet you.
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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors
We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately
that depends, what kind of beer do you have :)
by PittsburghCaniac on Mar 4, 2010 1:22 AM EST up reply actions
Cmon, we are all rooting for the same team, DidJussiThat? your posts have been ridiculous. We are all here for fun and to discuss the ’Canes, not to provoke violence. I suggest that you either grow up, or leave- Canes talk here, not crap talk with fellow fans.
by PittsburghCaniac on Mar 4, 2010 1:22 AM EST up reply actions
My posts are ridiculous?
The guy just crapped al over one of the best players ever to put on the Canes uniform, and I am ridiculous?
Please.
See ya, Scotty.
by DidJussiThat? on Mar 4, 2010 12:04 PM EST up reply actions
You agree that comments like:
“People who write things like that really ought to sign their name and address . . . to prove they aren’t loudmouths who hide behind anonymity”
are NOT ridiculous?
by PittsburghCaniac on Mar 5, 2010 12:50 AM EST up reply actions
Hey, wait, I get it, the next time a fellow caniac craps on a player that I like, I should ask him for his name and address? Thats just stupid and ignorant…opinions are opinions, nobody is forcing you to agree or disagree.
by PittsburghCaniac on Mar 5, 2010 12:51 AM EST up reply actions
When you are a seller thats what you do DUMP salary. You don’t come out of it a better team, you start the rebuid for the future. JR said half the team would be gone next year, this is a start.
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I disagree. When you are a “seller” your goal is to improve your team (rebuild) for the future so that you aren’t a seller next year. The Canes made zero moves to improve the future of the team. They shed salary because they are cheap, that is it.
Picard and Pothier are not decent prospects. They are more mediocre 5th-7th slot D.
We took by all accounts a great opportunity to improve the team and threw it away to move out as much salary out as possible because they are cheap.
Potheir is like 33 or something. no longer a prospect. How do you know so much about picard? Ive only seen him play one game for us. You can’t say b/c of what he did in Ott. Jussi was waived by TB!! Sammy was waived by Chicago!!! We will only know with time. Let the dust settle, we didn’t gve anyone up. The only player we gave up that was under contract was albe. Dmen like him are a dime a dozen. We can sign one in the offseason for 1m.
Rarely are evaluations of trades the day they happen accurate
by CarolinaCanes on Mar 3, 2010 5:28 PM EST up reply actions
Sorry I was using prospects losely, I meant potential players.
Bad D-men are a dime a dozen. Top-4 D-men are as precious as diamonds. You make it sound like we can just go pick up another Gleason/Pitkanen, good luck finding that.
we didn’t trade gleason or pitkanen though. we traded corvo from our top 4. thats it. He was a UFA and would have probably demanded 4 plus mill a year. we can argue the merits of that but none the less we would have to negotiate with him anyway. So its really a wash in my opinion. ill miss him and Ill hate seeing him a craps uni, but at the end of the day I think we did ok trading him. I just wish we would have gotten this in before the belanger deal and we would have another 2nd this year
by CarolinaCanes on Mar 3, 2010 5:44 PM EST up reply actions
We traded Corvo from our top-4 and have no one to replace him. We won’t get a top-4 D in Free Agency, so we are left with a gaping hole. That’s not a small hole… that is a very big hole.
what i was saying is that we would have to sign corvo for him to be on the team next year. That would be a free agent signing, for all intents and purposes. We traded away 20 games of Joe Corvo. Thats it. Its not like he has three years left on his deal. I doubt very seriously that Was will be able to afford to keep him anyway.
If he resigns with us, we lost NOTHING
If he doesnt, he probably would have left in july anyway.
I really like Corvo and didn’t want to see him traded, but we have to call a spade a spade
by CarolinaCanes on Mar 3, 2010 5:49 PM EST up reply actions
Picard – Bottom 6 D (Crap)
Pothier – Bottom 6 D (Crap)
I’m sure we will have great success next year with Gleason, Pitkanen, Carson, ???? as our top-4. That sounds like a blast to watch. I’m positive we sure as hell won’t be picking up any top-4 D this offseason in Free Agency, if today states anything about the Canes it is that costs will be cut anywhere and everywhere, team skill be damned.
Shame on PK and JR for coming out and stating how we need more STH and fan support and then go Fire-Sale the whole team without one improvement. Not one thing they did told me that they are serious about being a playoff team next year. Every single trade screamed “SAVE MONEY”.
Hey JussiJuice
You cannot lose basically the entire first half of an NHL season and expect to make the playoffs;everyone that thought that the Canes were going to make the post season where crazy. We all new the fire sale was coming and up have the talent in AHL and below levels to make a great team next season.
I mean getting anything in return for older worn out guys like Yelle and A. Ward is great and dumping H. Reed who is never going to be NHL player is another great move.
This league and every sports league is about money, Hurricanes are at best a middle-market team and have to save money where they can b/c you want to be able to pay Staal and C. Ward and allow them to stay by being able to afford their huge contracts correct.
Face the facts we should have just paid Babchuk and Seidenberg and not signed or traded for any D-Men in the off-season. Enjoy the fun now b/c Carolina is going to build from within next season and sign almost no high or middle of the road free agents.
We have great talent in the minors and it is time to play them already; look at J. Peters, Carson, Boychuck, Bowman, Borer, Dwyer, and B. Sutter is having a great season for us.
Have some faith JR is going to turn it around .
by Holty_Panthers_Fan on Mar 3, 2010 5:27 PM EST up reply actions
I had faith that JR would turn it around at the trade deadline and pick us up a decent top-4 D prospect for next year. Instead we pick up some garbage and give away our only decent, affordable, bottom pairing D (Alberts) for nothing.
A lot of people hoped last off-season that JR would go out and fix our problems, and the trade deadline before that, and the off-season before that, ect.
Maybe you haven’t been a fan long enough to be frustrated that these great chances to improve our team keep coming by only to see Canes management take the cheap route. And then they come out and say there isn’t enough fan support, now that is funny to me.
It bears repeating. I called up my ticket rep and asked if they were passing the savings on… They aren’t. You would think if they were more worried about saving money than improving the team for the fans they would at least have the decency to lower ticket prices a bit.
yeah, that annoys me too
i have to deal with it in boston, ticket prices raised 30 percent in the complete absence of a championship. ridiculous.
dallas is actually lowering its lower bowl prices this year to try and get fewer corporate holders who never show up.
I think you might be right, LOL, when you sit in 28th you are a SELLER, when you are @ the cap (or damn close to it) in 28th, you need to dump salary, thats exactly what JR did today. If anyone expected to pick up Crosby or OV they are crazy. (I say that in jest but reading some of these posts that what you’d think)
"That’s what happens when you suck" - Tim Gleason
JussiJuice
You make it sound like the off-season doesn’t exist. I think you need to relax. There was no need to improve the team before the end of the season.
Yea they did so well all year long? Trading involves give and take. All I see is giving. JR sucks.
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That is my point. Plenty of trades were made, tons of teams (both sellers and buyers) improved, the Canes were the only team I saw that were just having a Fire-Sale of anyone on the team just to move out salaries.
The Alberts trade is a prime example. Why would we move out a decent, extremely affordable, young, likeable D man for NOTHING? There is absolutely no sense to that trade except they just didn’t want to pay him.
You guys are right that you don’t immediately improve your team, but what you are suppose to do is trade veterans to acquire young talent. Really all we picked up was a couple of was 3rd round and lower draft picks (I know Washington’s was a 2nd). Where is 1 very good to elite prospect in this whole thing? At least Toronto got Caputi and the Avs got Mueller. I’m not giving up or jumping off a bridge, but we did not come out ahead today. IMO, this is a shallow/weak draft and we loaded up on mid to late round picks. I just don’t get what JR was trying to do.
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The Hurricanes had literally nobody to trade that would yield a top tier prospect. If you take the players we traded, A. Ward and Yelle were waived and nobody wanted them at all. Alberts was not going to yield an NHL All-Star. Corvo is still healing from a near career-ending injury and the Hurricanes managed to get a #2 2011 draft pick, and Osala — who is exactly the kind of power forward prospect the team needs to nurture. Pothier helps the team get through this year.
It is inconsistent to say that the Hurricanes got nothing in return for these players and the team is going to be awful for the last twenty games of the season; but will also win enough games to finish above #28.
Corvo is literally the only player the Hurricanes will miss; and depending on his approach to free agency, he would not be on the team next season. I think the Hurricanes will at worst get a top four or top five pick and any way that shakes out, the Hurricanes will have a very, very talented player from the #1 pick. We also have 3 #2 picks for the 2010 draft. In addition, the later draft picks give the Hurricanes a chance to pick project players who will take time to develop. Today was a good day for the Hurricanes.
AD,
You’re right the Canes didn’t have a player that would yield a top prospect. What I’m saying is that I am disappointed. We really didn’t get anything of value. Maybe they could have packaged one of our 2nds with Corvo and at least got their 1st. At least a low 1st has a significantly better chance of becoming a NHL player than a low 2nd.
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by PackPride17 on Mar 3, 2010 5:53 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Settle for mediocrity if you wish. Wolf my ass, I expect this org. to at least try. A. Ward, Corvo, Walker, Yelle, Alberts and what did the team get? A crap pick or two? If that’s all JR can do he is pathetic. If you settle for that type of performance it will only continue.
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A. Ward, Corvo, Walker, Yelle, Alberts
A. Ward, Corvo, Walker, Yelle, Alberts are not exactly the starting lineup for the 2010-2011 NHL Allstar game. What team would trade a first tier prospect to get them?
That is exactly how I see it too. Except for maybe Alberts it is most likely that not any of the others would still be here come next season. We have lots of prospects in Albany that now will have an opportunity to step forward. Rodney, Borer, Boychuk, Bowman, among others might get valuable experience…
Let´s get a taste of next season. Onwards and upwards..!!!
Well if it’s rhetorical. If you were going to dump salary Yelle 500 and Alberts 700 is a pretty pathetic shot. How about Cole for a 7th round pick? Walker had more grit than Cole? Samsinov? What’s the story with Ray. This looking like the feeble Canes at work again. There was a bunch of bundles that could of been concocted to acquire better picks or players. So far this has been a real anemic attempt at JR’s so called 50% and has done little to help the team and the salary dumps are not big.
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thanks for telling me all about hockey, Paladin6
and about settling. I guess i should consider myself schooled. We definitely should have gotten a strong roster player for any of the previously-waived or injured players we moved today.
No sweat worth what paid for it. More valuable than season tickets for sure.
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at the very least
this may put us in the hall sweepstakes with a bullet. and then you’ll all get your blue chip prospect.
by the way to change the subject check out the updated depth chart. look how BIG our D is. Thats crazy. Timmy would be our smallest dman next year it things stay the same. Mcbain needs to fill out a bit but still.
So we have lost Cullen, Walker, Yelle, Wallin, Corvo, A Ward and Alberts and all we got back is pretty much Picard and some 2nd round picks. Hopefully Picard can pan out to be a good D-man but from the few games I have seen of Ottawa earlier in the year, I don’t have too much hope. I won’t even count any picks past the 3rd round since the organization has given me zero confidence that we will get a good NHL player out of them. I’m highly suspicious we can put our 2nd rounders to much use considering this is the same group who though they needed to draft Paradis in the first round.
If you’re going to give up Walker you shouldn’t just hand him over to your divisional rival for basically nothing.
I’m just hoping they package some picks and something to get another first round pick or some real players/prospects in free-agency. I may not dislike the actions as much I do right now after a day or two but I cannot believe JR couldn’t get atleast one or two real prospects out of that entire bunch. As mentioned already, we now have Gleason, Pitkanen and nothing but a bunch 5th-7th slot defenseman in our rotation on the blue line going into next year.
Oh well, still looking forward to watching this group beat the Sens tomorrow night, Go Canes!
/end of my rant
At least we get more Rats!
Or is it Checkers now? Christ they even screwed that up…
Wasn’t the blue line JR’s main concern coming into this year? That’ll be funny in a couple days…I hope
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how did they screw up by getting a team in Charlotte
that was a great move.
See ya, Scotty.
by DidJussiThat? on Mar 4, 2010 12:06 PM EST up reply actions
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