Should the Hurricanes Re-Sign Scott Walker?

The mentality of this team and it’s fans need to STOP GOING BACKWARDS! Once again TURN THE PAGE….

Absolutely NOT!

I’d much rather they sign a veteran center than a veteran wing. More than anything, I’d like to see JR stand pat and go into camp as is. If an obvious need arises, there will be choices available.

There’s ‘no’ and then there’s ‘Hell no’. This is the latter.

I’m sort of torn on this, I’m all for the youth movement and can’t wait for it to be here… but I still feel a team to succeed you need role players. Role player could be defined by Walker. He’s always willing to stand up for his teammates, is a reliable 4th liner and has the experience and heart that the young kids need around them.

If they found they wanted to play Matsumoto as the 4th line center, it might be good to have a role player to sit with him on that line. Because lets be honest, most of the youth movement we have doesn’t include 4th liners… which isn’t a bad thing but a team does need it.

The biggest issue with Walker over the past few years is staying healthy. If he was able to and signed for small dollars it might be worth it.

If Scotty wants to play, send him to Charlotte and ask him to teach all of these youngsters how to play – between him and “the scoring machine” Jeff Daniels (back in the 01-02 season that was a banner in 328), they can help get these kids ready.

Either that, or convert him back to defense, and he can be the puck handling defenseman that Rutherford covets so much.

Seriously, Scotty, I like you a lot, but go back to Nashville, and have your 24 put up in the rafters at Bridgestone Arena. You’ve earned it.

Voted NO, i see,understand and appriciate aphillips post…persoanlly ithink walks ought to let his agent go as the biggest issue for scotty is and has been his health..not trying to short sheet the guy, but if scotty can have a st down one on one alone with JR and plead his case of say a 2 year deal…@ 850,000.00 with the undertanding that he is on a preformance probation meaning that IF the goals they set down together don’t happen…then at the trade deadline they package him with someone else & off he goes or at the end of the season he gets cut loose…but if does do and preform well and is healthy then the second & final year can be for the 1 mill but the same provisions to apply to the last season (2010/2011) or the man id cut loose…surely there is a way to do that with in the CBA or a PTO even…but other than that…I don’t realistically see JRsigning Walker to even a deputy assistant equipment managers posistion…but hell JR can and has done weird things before huh ? I wish all the best for scotty & his wife…

I love Walks, but it’s the kids’ turn. Rather see Bowman or Samson or Osala, etc. out there.

Apparently the YES voters have no reasoning to vote yes other than their hearts….

I dunno, I almost wish there was a who cares option. Go look at the depth chart up on Caneshockey.com. We were a non playoff team last year, and there is not a single face on this roster ( minus rookies) who were not here last year. Not a single new player, who isn’t looking to make their first full year in the bigs. This season ends much the same as last year, if not worse.

…needs a walker to get up and down the ice nowadays. No way he gets re-signed.

We may not need him, may not have a place for him, but we have no one that brings what he did. I hope he hangs them up rather than disgracing himself and dragging it on for too long. But he played hard every game, every shift, not just when wearing a Canada jersey. My profile pic says it all. my .02

Even though I made a theoretical argument on The Fourth Line thread on Scott Walker’s behalf, it was only if he was considered to be a replacement for a traded Kostopoulos, arguing that they were essentially the same player, but that a league-minimum one-year contract saved money and freed up a fourth-line roster spot a season earlier.

To add Scott Walker to the roster now is the very situation that JR said in this interview thread that he was not going to create this off-season.

The temptation is surely there, but good on JR to resist.

And, from this Canes Now blog entry, it looks like he’s manfully resisting:

Rutherford again said he does not anticipate the Canes adding any other players, saying the competition for spots, especially among the younger guys, will be beneficial. He said he has spoken with the agent of forward Scott Walker but does not anticipate bringing back the veteran forward, an unrestricted free agent.

“We like him a lot,” Rutherford said. “We do not have room right now.”

but he doesn’t have a spot on this team.

Tempis fugit is a Latin term that is most often translated as “time flies,” but I feel a more literal translation is “time is a fugitive.” Time escapes us. We all chase it, but it is just out of our reach. Scott Walker has been a solid hockey player, a great part of the locker room, and has some shining moments in a Canes jersey. He has overcome personal adversity and he punched Aaron Ward IN THE FACE. I’d love to buy him a beer.

For the 10-11 Canes, he does not fit the roster. I hope he gets an opportunity to play the game he clearly loves, and I wish him all the success in the world.

And not ashamed.
The dude’s a beast. I would have bought out Samsonov back whenever, then picked up Walker. Makes much more sense for the 4th line.
I know there’s a youth movement and all, but meh.

Walker is one hell of a teammate, someone who would stick up for others; but it would be idiotic to resign him. The kids need those lower roster spots to prove themselves and gain experience to become the new generation. The answer to this question is a BIG NO!

The only way I would do this is to trade Harrison and make Scotty our 7th defenseman. :)

In short, no

In long, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

i say yes,
the heart and experience and voice would be a great help to this young team