Joel Broda reflects on his juniors career and looks to the future. The Caps have 'til June 1 to...

Joel Broda reflects on his juniors career and looks to the future. The Caps have 'til June 1 to sign him - after that he becomes a free agent and he has been apparently been talking to some other teams.

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His hair has changed pretty dramatically.

by TFG on May 24, 2010 2:41 PM EDT reply actions

I don't think...

…he can talk to other teams until after June 1. He’s still exclusive to the Caps until then. That said, I suspect that he’ll get signed, unless the Caps have learned something that they’ve kept quiet about.

The Caps did draft Nick Boynton and didn’t get him signed, and while he’s turned into a decent NHL player, he never became the star that the Caps thought he would be (considering where he was drafted). It was a good thing they didn’t sign him (admittedly, they should have drafted better…three picks after Boynton, Ottawa selected Marian Hossa…)

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by MikeL-Pivonka on May 24, 2010 2:59 PM EDT reply actions

That’s a hairy young man, right there.

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by boutros23 on May 24, 2010 3:26 PM EDT reply actions

I think the writing has been on the wall with respect to Broda for a while – the Caps just aren’t all that into him. Maybe we should expect a Keith Seabrook type deal in the weeks ahead.

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by J.P. on May 24, 2010 3:26 PM EDT reply actions

What is a Keith Seabrook type deal?

by EmilyB on May 24, 2010 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions

The Caps swapped Keith Seabrook to Calgary for a draft pick, right?

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by red army line on May 24, 2010 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Future considerations, I think.

And by “future weeks” I’m assuming JP means “future days” ahead?

by six hole on May 24, 2010 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Deadline is tuesday next, and today a holiday in canada and monday next a holiday here.

by EmilyB on May 24, 2010 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions

Right. Days. Whatever. A “hey, we’re not gonna sign him, so let’s get a conditional pick for his rights” type deal. If they’d wanted to sign him, I think they’d have done so by now.

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by J.P. on May 24, 2010 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions

Given how the Seabrook deal turned out, I hope we get something better than just “future considerations.”

This FO gets a lot of the big stuff right (see: Backstrom deal, Knuble signing, drafting JC74), but much of the small stuff wrong (the Erskine/Sloan/Steckel extensions, yo-yo-ing Alzner, the Bourque cap SNAFU, the Seabrook trade…).

'Cause the end of what it was is what it is right now...

by D'ohboy on May 26, 2010 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions