If I see that word one more time, I'm gonna snap!!!!
- LeftCoaster

Is your snapping like a gun shot or is it a processs

How?
- LeftCoaster

Trade him for a low pick, retain some of his salary. Both options are better than simply replacing Erat and his cap hit for Booth, an offensive player that hasn't found offense in years and struggles to maintain full fitness.

Trade him for a low pick, retain some of his salary. Both options are better than simply replacing Erat and his cap hit for Booth, an offensive player that hasn't found offense in years and struggles to maintain full fitness.
- AlexF

That's not 2 options its one. Its probably get nothing and eat salary.

It's a process.
- Nucker101

Touche!!

He will be dearly missed.
- Whiskey-Tango

Like Brain from Family Guy....

That's not 2 options its one. Its probably get nothing and eat salary.
- Bieksa#3

Not necessarily. Erat has a decent track record of putting up points for an offenisvely challenged team (NSH). It's just clear that there was simply no fit for him in WSH for whatever reason. I wouldn't say he was tarnished goods just yet. Booth on the other hand is definitely tarnished.

Is your snapping like a gun shot or is it a processs
- Bieksa#3

Instantaneous

I hope one of those pro scouts was from washington. Erat could easily play on the second line or with the twins. Anything is better than booth. Anything.

Like Brain from Family Guy....
- Beatle_john

Trade him for a low pick, retain some of his salary. Both options are better than simply replacing Erat and his cap hit for Booth, an offensive player that hasn't found offense in years and struggles to maintain full fitness.
- AlexF

What if we retain say 1.2 million of Booth's salary?

Not necessarily. Erat has a decent track record of putting up points for an offenisvely challenged team (NSH). It's just clear that there was simply no fit for him in WSH for whatever reason. I wouldn't say he was tarnished goods just yet. Booth on the other hand is definitely tarnished.
- AlexF

I don't disagree but given other teams cap situations the partners will be few lowering his value even more

What if we retain say 1.2 million of Booth's salary?
- LeftCoaster

I wouldn't. What if Erat is done? Then we pay him 4.5 and booth 1.2. Rather buy booth out

I wouldn't. What if Erat is done? Then we pay him 4.5 and booth 1.2. Rather buy booth out
- Bieksa#3

Erat's salary is only $2.25 next year.

If they take Booth as any part of a deal, it would be clear that the old adage of the East not staying up late enough to know what the West is doing would never be more true.

I don't disagree but given other teams cap situations the partners will be few lowering his value even more
- Bieksa#3

Most definitely. The only teams that I can see may have some interest (without taking any salary back) are:

Colorado (11.9m in cap space)
NYI (11.2m)
Ottawa (8.4m)

Apart from them, any interested team would need to be trading some salary in return.

I wouldn't. What if Erat is done? Then we pay him 4.5 and booth 1.2. Rather buy booth out
- Bieksa#3

I don't know that Erat is done - he just tanked the moment he went to the Caps.

He was scoring at his usual pace - 21 pts in 36 games, then he was traded, 3 points in 9 games. Now he has 6 in 21.

His dollar value is also quite low compared to his cap hit for the last two years. 3.7mil and 2.5 mil. cap hit 4.5

I could see a team that needs the cap hit but not the expenditure take Erat, likely not the nucks. Although Washington is the old SE div, maybe they could spin that Booth did all his production there and the bears in the west are distracting him from hockey.

Erat's salary is only $2.25 next year.
- Chest Rockwell

Sorry his cap hit. But the salary does help wsh

None....it's too old and dry
- LeftCoaster

I fear you are right, but am hoping for something to stick.

I wouldn't. What if Erat is done? Then we pay him 4.5 and booth 1.2. Rather buy booth out
- Bieksa#3

I don't operate on a "what if" basis.

I don't operate on a "what if" basis.
- LeftCoaster

Isn't every single trade "what if"?

Rocky's MooseKnuckles???

Isn't every single trade "what if"?
- Bieksa#3

Not for me. You make the best decision possible at the time and hope you made the right choice. Sometimes you're rigth, or if you're Mike Gillis, most of the time you're wrong.

It does for a while and then it slides leaving a huge yellowish-brown stain, horribly textured and with a pungent odor.
- Marwood

Not necessarily. Erat has a decent track record of putting up points for an offenisvely challenged team (NSH). It's just clear that there was simply no fit for him in WSH for whatever reason. I wouldn't say he was tarnished goods just yet. Booth on the other hand is definitely tarnished.
- AlexF

Erat wreaks of Marco Sturm to me, to which I say - NO (frank)IN' WAY!!!!!

Erat wreaks of Marco Sturm to me, to which I say - NO (frank)IN' WAY!!!!!
- chompsey

How so? Erat was clocking at a 0.75 PPG pace for the past 3 years leading up to this season.

Sturm was a reclamation project long before he was wearing an orca jersey.

Everyone on here wants some changes made but no one wants to give up anything or apparently take anyone on who isn't a well established young star in the midst of a 10 game point streak.

If Gillis can find a way to take Erat on for the next 1.5 seasons it's an opportunity worth pursuing. We need a top 6 playmaker, here you go.