If he clears waivers can he go to Rockford or is he a free agent and are we eligible to sign him at league minimum?
No. If he clears waivers his cap hit less 950k is still on the books. The 'hawks can recall him whenever (no more reentry waivers). This can mean 1 of 2 things:
1) They think that ickell is totally worthless at the NHL level and are using the freed 950k (assuming they have a free active roster slot and cap space) to play a 950k or less player.
or
2) They are dangling him for free to any other franchise and are seeing if someone will bite.
Bain and Parain need to step it up this year.
Anyway, Bicks cleared waivers and is now back. Not sure I get it.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...spt-bryan-bickell-waivers-20151003-story.html
As aforementioned in point 2...they were likley dangling him for free and seeing if anyone would bite and take him off our hands. No one did. Chances are he'll still be on the roster come opening night but hopefully this will be a wakeup call to him--we might be stuck with him for the next 2 seasons but after that his career options might be severely limited unless he starts playing at least to the level that got him the 4M deal.
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Cap-wise Hockeycap says we're approximately 190k over, but I bet dollars to donuts Rosival will be LTIR'ed--giving us approximately 410k in cap space. I think because Baun/Panarin looked better to Q and Co. that's why they got the nod over Dano. I do think that Dano will be called back this year unless Baun/Panarin both look to be in the top-3 of the Calder trophy race.
As for the backend it will be interesting to see who falters: TVR, Runblad, or Svedberg. When Rosie is going to come off of LTIR something has got to give and I doubt we'll send down a 13th fed to make room for him. I don't know if Svedberd will be enough capspace, and on the surface TVR looks better even though Runblad could be waived and the bulk of his deal can be buried in Rockford, but the flipside is that Stan may not like that--even if Rosie is just going to take over 7th D.