Sounds like isles may have offered 50m For 7 years, 7.14m cap hit. Vanek is willing to take less and go somewhere of his choosing.

yup, he wanna leave long island.

aka minnesota

Damn, you guys beat me to it.
Was about to post "Chris Botta: “Told that Thomas Vanek is well aware he may be leaving $ on the table. He knows he may not get 50/7 from his teams of choice""

I really don't want the Wild to pursue Vanek if it would take $7m to get him... Out of curiosity, how low do you think he'll go (assuming that he actually WANTS to play in Minnesota)?

vanek is 30 years old he prob just doesnt wanna sign for 7 years

This post was edited by dragoneth on Feb 4 2014 09:14am

Other way around. Teams don't want to sign older players for long contracts, but older players would love to have a guaranteed contract til 37. Especially a 7 million dollar per year contract. He gets sick of the game, he retires, easy as that.

This post was edited by dxlightning on Feb 4 2014 09:22am

maybe hes not like that amybe he only wants 5 years and to retire then not worrying that he jewed them out of 2 years on his contract
i agree tho gms normally dont want to offer that knid of contract to 30+ guys... just goes to show how bad snow really is hes no fuckin gm lol

In all fairness to Snow, he has Okposo, Nielsen, Hamonic, Tavares, Grabner, and Bailey on cheap mid-to-long term contracts. IIRC he's incredibly limited by their owner who doesn't want to spend past the cap - frankly I feel like the only reason he offered such an inflated contract is because the cap is going up next year, which means the minimum will go above isles current hit.

With vanek, bouchard, and their goalies still unsigned for next year, isles are barely above half the cap max right now lol. They're in a really good position to go after some free agents if the free agents will go there.

This post was edited by dxlightning on Feb 4 2014 09:30am

dont think bouchard is even playing

he's playing in the AHL