Ye but at least he produces goals as a result, unlike lucic jajaja

Josh Anderson, who remains unsigned eight days before the Columbus Blue Jackets begin their regular season, has requested a trade from the NHL club.

Anderson, an improving player who took a big step last season, was expected to be an important piece in the team’s plans for 2017-18. The Blue Jackets worked hard to avoid exposing him in the NHL Expansion Draft and it’s believed they rejected Colorado’s requests to include him in any Matt Duchene trade.

But negotiations have been difficult. Anderson is a restricted free agent. On Tuesday, The Athletic’s Aaron Portzline reported the team and player were “as little as $150,000 per year (apart) on a three-year contract — but both sides are standing firm on principle.”

Anderson’s agent, Darren Ferris, said via text he would not comment. Through a team spokesman, Columbus president of hockey operations John Davidson and general manager Jarmo Kekalainen also declined to comment.

Maybe this is what finally gets Duchene moved. Crazy a guy wouldnt take a tiny pay cut to avoid being traded to the basement dwelling Avs.

"tiny pay cut"
thats almost half a million over the 3 year contract they are aiming for

and probably already took paycuts to get to that number

Report has been denied

It's likely less than 1/10th of his salary that he's arguing over and the alternative is going to one of the shittiest managed teams in sports. Thats the only point I was trying to make, my gawd I realize half a million dollars is a lot of money but as an athlete I imagine you'd want to be on a team that gives you a chance and has a chance to compete for the cup. The Blue Jackets are a team that's close to being a perennial playoff team and possibly even deep threat for the playoffs, the Avs are a joke.

10% in pay is big...
We took a 20% cut last year and Alotta guys losing their houses over it.

Soo. All the power to the player.

Ye but not everyone in the joke league wanna risk taking paycuts to have a "chance" at winning the cup, especially when youre not making much compared to others. ur career ends mid 30s, if not sooner and u need to find an alternative career. Not to mention these guys get taxed like 40%

Blues are thinking about signing Jagr