Hurricanes Re-Sign Jerome Samson To Two-Way Deal

Yeah, in that 17 min. interview he sounded like he was pretty annoyed, the way he said that Rod has the right to take as long as he wants, as if he was reminding himself of the fact.

You’re right though, it’s lose/lose.

Haha. You’ve already seen my theory on twitter, but I’m finally at a real keyboard so here goes.

I believe that JR and team will do anything they can roster-wise to accommodate Roddie without buying him out. They’ll probably buy out Sergei, and who knows what kind of magic they can work during the draft. Maybe they can shed salary somewhere that we haven’t considered.

Listening to Scott Niedermayer’s retirement speech today on XM on my drive home, there is no way the organization wants to take that away from one of the faces of our franchise. Now, that’s something they may not want to do and will go to great lengths to avoid, but in the end they may not be able to avoid it.

They’ll postpone it as long as they can just to see where all the cards fall after the draft and any trades, signings, etc. leading up to free agency.

Then, if there is no choice, I think they will call Rod into the office and offer him two choices. One is to announce his retirement, upon which the organization signs him to a consulting agreement or other position in the organization. Terms will be undisclosed, but I’d bet they would be close to $1m a year for 2 years. Under this scenario he makes the announcement and we raise his jersey to the rafters next year.

The other choice is he gets bought out, at $1m a year x 2 years. That way, if he still wants to play hockey somewhere, he has the opportunity.

His choice.

There’s a reason I shouldn’t be left alone in a car for seven hours.