[Frank Seravalli] The Flyers are in the process of completing a trade to send Kevin Hayes to the Blues. They are retaining half of Hayes’ salary for the remaining three years of his deal, resulting in a cap hit of $3,571,428 for STL.
The #Flyers are in the process of completing a trade to send Kevin Hayes to #stlblues.
They are retaining half of Hayes' salary for the remaining three years of his deal, resulting in a cap hit of $3,571,428 for STL.
First to report trade: @KevinWeekes.
— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) June 27, 2023
by minorthreat21
13 Comments
I’ll take him at $3.5M any day of the week. That’s $1.5M less than we were paying Bozak.
Yes! This is what I love to see. Not going to find a 3c his caliber out there for less than 3.5m a year.
Only gave up a 6th rounder. Absolutely love it.
56 points last year on that abysmal Flyers team. Great 3C without giving up even a single pick for this years draft. Huge steal. Might fit well with Torpedo on his wing
If it doesn’t work out, you can easily trade him in a year or 2 and retain 1.75mill if needed. Great pickup low risk, medium to low ceiling but still.
Umm yes please. I think there is a lot of potential upside here.
Stick this big bastard in front of the net on power plays and i’lll be happy.
Guys at C with around 50 points last year and their their aav (with hayes retained)
Hayes – 81 gp – 54 pts – 3.55 million
Kadri – 82 gp – 56 pts – 7 m
Karlsson – 82 gp – 53 pts – 5.9 m
Danault – 82 gp – 54 pts – 6.75 m
Duchene – 71 gp – 56 pts – 8 m
Marchessault – 76 gp – 57 pts – 5 m
Backlund – 82 gp – 56 pts – 5.35 m
Seguin- 76 gp – 50 pts – 9.85 m
Hayes probably played on the worst team of this bunch too.
At that cost I think it is good business, but hopefully this doesn’t mean we can’t bring Sunny back.
Seems like a nice pickup and a fresh start for him.
But if the Flyers are paying $3.5m for him NOT to be on their team, I’m gonna see what he looks like before being too thrilled about paying $3.5m ourselves. Sounds like his defense was garbage. Berube and team will have to help change that.
I definitely like his size at C.
A middle 6 C for $3.5m is really good.
ARMY FOR PRESIDENT
Yeah… this is good.
Sir. Welcome to STL. Work hard and we dont GaF what else.