Marco Sturm on waivers

[Ho_Brah]

YES!!

 

[Ho_Brah]

A) Loktionov gets recalled

or

b) Possible trade


I'm going with A

 

[pixburgher66]

Seems very odd...

 

[mattola]

Brad Richards Trade?

 

[Ho_Brah]

Free's up Cap space for the Kings for a deal? it also allows Lokti to get back in the line up. interesting move after Terry Murray had good things to say about Marco on his return from IR.

 

[Ho_Brah]

Brad Richards Trade?

no thanks mate!

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

Clark MacArthur?

 

[Ho_Brah]

Clark MacArthur?

That actually had crossed my mind. inexpensive yet a young hard working LW.
They still could recall Lokti and carry 24 players any time after Monday the 28th. If they’re waiving Sturm now — it sure suggests to me that DL is preparing for an imminent trade.

After watching last night’s game IMO Sturm’s play looked fine. Even had an assist. So I’d also guess that the player DL has in mind must be an upgrade (which also removes the need to wait for Sturm to get 100% back to form).

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Didn't the Kings already have something like $15M in cap room?

 

[Ho_Brah]

naw dude. I wish. I think its somewhere around the 2-3 million mark.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

naw dude. I wish. I think its somewhere around the 2-3 million mark.

Must have been another team they were talking about. Was listening in the car on XM Home Ice.

But it was before my first cup of coffee, so I think I get a free pass for not remembering which team

 

[dash]

Joe Thornton for Marco Sturm, Brad Stuart, and Wayne Primeau...Terrible trade by Mike O'Connell.

 

[pixburgher66]

Joe Thornton for Marco Sturm, Brad Stuart, and Wayne Primeau...Terrible trade by Mike O'Connell.

Wait...what?

EDIT:

 

[jstewismybastardson]

naw dude. I wish. I think its somewhere around the 2-3 million mark.

Capgeek shows 4.2 mill in space without accounting for sturm being dumped

Their max additional cap hit works out to 18.2 mill

 

[Slimpikins]

Joe Thornton for Marco Sturm, Brad Stuart, and Wayne Primeau...Terrible trade by Mike O'Connell.

Personally I thought it was a fantastic trade.

 

[davnlaguna]

Funny thing is he is still with the team at practice and if he clears they are expecting to have him play on Monday.
"Dude, we just cut you from the team, but hey stick around. If no one wants you then we want you" That has to do wonders to his self esteem.

 

[Ho_Brah]

Great information on the whole "why Marco Sturm?"

First of all, what waivers do and what they don't do. Waivers are required before a team is allowed to loan a player to a non-NHL team. Usually this means the AHL. Sometimes it means Europe. So the main reason to put a player on waivers is, you want to send him somewhere else. The waiver rule allows other teams to have a crack at him first.
One thing waivers don't do: waivers don't remove the player from your active roster. That only happens if (a) the player is claimed by another team, or (b) having cleared waivers, the team loans the player to a team in another league.

But a team can waive a player and choose not to loan him to anyone. Why do this? Well, one reason is, the waiver period, from the time the team officially puts the player on waivers, to the time the player clears waivers, is at minimum 24 hours. I believe it's 48 hours if the player is waived on a Saturday. But it's 24 hours at least.

And while we're in the 24 hour waiver period, that player cannot be traded, and he can't be loaned. So he stays on the active roster.

The Kings currently have the league maximum of 23 players on their active roster. This means, if they are planning on making a trade that increases their active roster -- for example, by trading a pick and bringing in a roster player, or by trading a roster player and bringing back two roster players -- they would not be able to make such a trade until there was room on the roster.

So room needs to be made. You do this by loaning players to the AHL. But to do that, you have to clear waivers first.

So the move is made now. Otherwise, Lombardi would have to wait 24 (or 48) hours to make any trade. And we all know these things come fast and furious as we get down to the wire.

So Sturm is on waivers so that the Kings have room to make a move at any time, starting tomorrow at 9am Pacific Time.

But why Sturm?

The Kings could have sent Alec Martinez, Kyle Clifford or Jonathan Bernier down without having to go through waivers, as they are exempt. But as the team is required to have two goalies on the roster, sending down Bernier wouldn't help. And Clifford would have to be returned to junior, from which he would not be able to return until his junior season is over.

Now, Martinez. He's been a healthy scratch the last two games. Why not send him down to make room? I assume it's because he's going to be playing on Saturday. But it might also be:

Lombardi might want to have Martinez is his hip pocket, to be able to send him down at any time, just in case he needs to create two spots, not just the one he's started to make room for by waiving Sturm.

Lombardi could also have waived Kevin Westgarth, Davis Drewiske or Peter Harrold. But he didn't. And I think the reason is, he thinks they would be picked up.

He doesn't think Sturm is going to be picked up. Because only a playoff-bound team would do that, and playoff teams are, for the most part, up against the cap ceiling and want whatever cap space they have to make trades. So they're not going to blow that by absorbing Sturm's full cap hit.

So it's a gamble, but a reasonable one.

And I think the conclusion to draw from it is NOT that Sturm is on the way out. He will likely stay right where he is on the first line.

The conclusion I reach is that Lombardi wants to be able to add two roster players at any moment. He did this last year, remember? He traded Teddy Purcell and brought in Fredrik Modin and Jeff Halpern.

Doesn't mean he's going to make any deals. He might not.

But he's ready to.

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

Many players have been put on waivers today. I think Hawaiian hit the nail on the head. Teams are clearing up roster spots for any deals they're going to make between now & Monday.

 

[JustAsking]

A) Loktionov gets recalled

or

b) Possible trade


I'm going with A

I don't think Loktionov will get recalled now... he got hurt and is done for the year, from what I read...

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

First the Isles beat up the Pens. Then Pronger goes to the lockeroom with an injured wrist & now their farm team is getting into the act.