Bob McKenzie: Hurricanes To Place Anthony Stewart On Waivers

Branecky and others have stated (twitter) that the Canes don’t typically waive a full-time NHL player for the purpose of sending him to the AHL (although we have done some things we don’t typically do this season).

The benefit is that if another organization is interested in Stewart but doesn’t have something of value to provide in return via trade, they can claim him off waivers.

Kind of the opposite of what we did with Jussi. He was on waivers, but we didn’t claim him off waivers, we traded contracts we wanted shed of in Brookbank and Melichar.

Maybe JR doesn’t want to take a bad contract back.

Just rambling…

Also, from a timing perspective, since we don’t play until Wednesday, it gives us time to call up a forward if he is claimed. If he’s not claimed, he’s still in the lineup.

As much as I hate to say it, ,ay just be as simple as they were tired of spending 900K on a 4th liner (for Muller) when they have a 500K guy in Charlotte who can fill the role.

I’d much prefer a trade, but Chip just suggested that and it unfortunately makes a ton of sense I guess. I liked Stewart though.

Oh, excuse me, I thought you were talking about each and every player.

To single out Stewart is a bit much. That LA game, even Sutter made attempted some dumb passes out of our own end and they never made it out.

I actually first thought that maybe Craig Ramsay would want him back under his tutelage, but then remembered that the Panthers, where Ramsay is now an assistant, drafted Stewart and likely aren’t interested.

One can only hope Washington or Tampa so he can continue his trek through the Southeast.

Ducks suck in the bottom six, Stewart could well help them…..

I tend to agree with this view. I don’t think it has much to do with salary or who else might play on what line. It’s about whether you fit in Muller’s future team.
I see this as a continuation of the Ponikarovsky deal as a view to what Muller wants. JR and Maurice didn’t seem to be on the same page for whatever reason but that hopfully has changed.

If that’s the case, then given what we got for Kaberle, JR ought to be able to get 2 1sts and the Patrick Roy statue in front of the Bell Centre for Stewart.

To me, this isn’t the first domino … that was Poni.

does anyone else think maybe Dalpe will get another shot up? Dadanov, while he hasn’t put up stats, has played well for the Checkers. I don’t get to watch all the games, but I’ve listened to each broadcast since he joined the team and has seemed to have a great understanding for the game. I don’t know, I’m just speculating.

His hands were certainly tied by the funds made available for him.

The Poni trade is working out well for the Devils at least. He’s playing pretty well for them.

If he can’t play in top nine here, why would anyone want to give something up for him?

And I’m plenty glad he pulled it off.

Nodl/Sutter/Dwyer have been playing lights out defensive hockey. There is no way in a merit based system that Nodl or Dwyer should be moved off the third line. As far as LaRose being a great defensive player for a third line, check out his plus/minus compared with the other forwards on the team. On the Hurricanes team, LaRose is a fourth line energy player who can also kill penalties. Whether on some other team he fits on the first line, it would take more research than I’ve done to say. One thing is fact. The Nodl/Sutter/Dwyer line has been superb defensively.

The team does not release which players are on waivers. But yes, he is on waivers.

The team is only $1.1m above the floor – Stewart’s 900k..Unless Bowman stay’s and his $845k counts…Not sure ,but dealing Allen & Jaro would put the team about $5.63 under the 48.3 floor and there at $49.4 + change – Stewart,so it get’s complicated from here on out as far as salary going and coming.

He seems like a good locker room guy, but when you were bring in to replace Cole (yes, high standards since Cole is now the best player on the Canadiens) but you are barely producing on the fourth line, you can’t stay in favor for too long.

That was a classic….

Is still with the team ,and Rosey is healthy

And we don’t play until Wednesday.

Putting him in the AHL has nothing to do with his salary, tho. He makes the same money regardless of where he plays, and the team doesn’t have to worry about the salary cap implications of his contract, seeing that they’re nowhere near the cap.

My guess is he stays with the Canes if he’s not claimed, like they did with Aaron Ward in 2009.

But they’d need to wait until the summer, and Stewart would have to agree to giving up over $300K. I don’t see that happening.

I love the fact that we are again going into a deadline with the most valuable assets and are not going to move them. It will be great to finish 10th in the east again!!!!

Who on Twitter is confirming talks between Jim Rutherford and Ruutu’s agent? I hope it’s true and it seems very reasonable to me as an approach; but I have not seen that report.

Who on twitter, exactly?

At the very least I hope he goes out as a rental for the season before they sign him…which is what I wanted with gleason.

Nothing against either of them as players, but they aren’t game changers, imo, for the team and I’m tired of seeing the same players getting re-signed while the team remains mediocre…at best.

I guess another way to say it is that I want to see a good team, not just good players on the same team.

My guess is that Ruutu is telling him that he wants to play here, and JR is saying that if he trades him for a rental, it will be to a Cup contender and that there will be an offer waiting for him during the summer.

He has tremendous offensive abilities, but I really don’t think he’ll be much more than a 3rd pairing/PP specialist. I hope he proves me wrong, but I just don’t see a top 4 defenseman.

On twitter, just not directly here:

RT @jbk_ltd: @Tachibana828 If JR didn’t think Tuomo had a future with the Canes, there would be no reason to talk to him, would there?

RT @jbk_ltd: @Tachibana828 Or, conversely, he could be publicly upping the ante for any other team that wants to acquire him.

Joe Yerdon mentioned it as well, from ProHockeyTalk this morning.

Then again, the cynic in me thinks this might just be news to help get teams looking to acquire Ruutu to up the ante.

I also believe you are underestimating Spacekas as a C. He brings a wealth of NHL experience to our defensive core and team overall—Veteran leadership (something lacking), he solidifies our backend defensively much more than Kaberle and has been a good team player whom the guys like.

Oh and as mentioned elsewhere—our defensive shot blocking is starting to be a team strength. If you haven’t noticed, despite shot totals, Cam hasn’t been facing as many primo shot against opportunities lately either. The stick work of our whole team in denying passes, clearing rebounds, blocking shots has improved all year throughout the year. A lot of that is Lewis.

Yeah, under Mo it wasn’t apparent. Not sure why not, maybe it just took longer for the team to buy in. Maybe adding Muller and demanding accountability helped with lewis’s messge and system. Maybe Muller and the NJ guy made tweaks. I’m not sure, and there’s no way for me to tell, but not sure Lewis deserves a C+

Bob McKenzie and JR via Chip.

Hahaha, Chip wrote this and posted it at 11:43. Waited until after noon to tweet it though.

Canes Now – Stewart clears waivers

Is this the video clip you saw on TSN today, or something different? This video is the same as the article I posted from yesterday (up there in this thread somewhere).