06/30/23, 9:30 AM: Chicago has now officially announced that they’ve signed Perry to a one-year, $4MM deal.
06/30/23, 7:30 AM: Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reports that the Blackhawks have reached an agreement on a one-year contract extension with the Blackhawks. The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun confirmed that the deal is a one-year, $4MM pact, an identical deal to what Nick Foligno received from Chicago just a few days ago.
While $4MM is likely quite a bit more than what most teams would bid on Perry’s services, the Blackhawks aren’t in a similar financial position to most teams. With Perry signed to this deal they’re still projected to have over $20MM in cap space by CapFriendly, meaning they’re in a perfect position to pay veteran players high sums of money in order to convince them to play for a team barely anyone expects to make the playoffs.
More than anything else, this type of cap space allows the Blackhawks to pay higher prices for free agents in order to secure them on one-year deals, thereby saving their financial flexibility in future years where the team might have plan on making a playoff run.
06/29/23: The Chicago Blackhawks have acquired the rights to pending UFA forward Corey Perry from the Tampa Bay Lightning, sending a 2024 seventh-round pick in return.
This deal seems to fit the Blackhawks’ recent strategy of targeting respected veterans to support their growing crop of impressive prospects. Perry, 38, is a veteran of nearly 1,300 NHL games and numerous long playoff runs. While his skating ability has largely evaporated, he still has soft hands and some offensive skill, along with the edge he plays with that has become his trademark. He can still provide some value as a net-front player on a power play, and just a year ago he scored 19 goals and 40 points.
Even if Chicago gets production more in line with what Perry did this past season (12 goals, 25 points) that’s still a decent player to have on any team. The Blackhawks still need to sign Perry, of course, and Perry could always prefer to sign with a contender.
But the Blackhawks have a stockpile of cap space and the ability to offer Perry a deal he can’t refuse, meaning he’s likely to end up in Chicago, one would assume. For Tampa Bay, getting a pick (even a very late one) for a player they were not planning on extending is impossible to argue with.
What year is it?
Another guy that can’t let go. Embarrassing!!!!!!!
you really are an idiot
the irony is real
A this point, intentionally or not, you are running a parody account.
They’ll pay him $4-$5mill as well to circumvent the cap floor.
If they were worried about the cap floor they wouldn’t be buying out Bailey.
4-5 million? OMG I hope not not. Rocky might have a stroke.
They’ll pay him 4 to 5 mil to circumvent the cap floor??
So, they’ll pay someone to get above the cap floor… I’m not understanding how paying someone more than he’s worth is circumventing the floor. It’s a disadvantage to them to pay someone more than they’re worth. It’s not like they’d be paying him 5mil on paper but only paying him a smaller amount in real dollars.
Now, the crap teams are doing with LTIR is 100% circumventing the cap ceiling.
Yup called that one
Please explain how paying a guy is circumventing the cap floor. Thanks.
Dog-I would help you out but it involves an Alternate Reality and some Quantum Physics and and a sorely lacking Public or Private School System of the poster. I’m 66 and have forgotten most of what I ever knew in the first Place. The Algorithm is totally escaping me right now. If I get a head injury and it comes back I’ll drop a line.
“LOL no” – Corey Perry, 2023
“HELL yes” – Corey Perry, 1 day later
Darkside-Yeah ya did! I hope the defibrilator in Rocky’s office works.
This one is a head scratcher. Do they need a baby sitter or something? Hall monitor for road trips? Like putting an elephant in the middle of a bunch of cheetahs.
it actually makes some sense. veteran leadership on the room and someone who will stand up on the ice for the younger players.
his true value to any team will be come playoff time so they can sign him (if he’s interested) then move him for likely a 3rd at the deadline.
At this stage in his career, I don’t know if he’ll be worth a 3rd even if retained to the minimum.
ok 4th, 5th. still value for what they sent back
Corey Perry is still tough. How did some of you miss that? I’m not saying he’s a beast or anything, but every game I saw with him in it last year, he was getting dirty. He has some value. Makes sense to me for a 7th. Might as well see if it clicks.
So you’re saying the Hawks needed a Gorilla? Then what’s Tinordi here for? How many Gorilla’s do you need? Joey Anderson? Zaitsev? Is there a Gorilla limit?
@Unclemike1526 – Well, actually there is. I believe it’s still 800 lbs.
Then we’re over the limit now.
I can say as a Habs fan you watched perry during there last run and how he has plaid during his next run he my not be a 100pt player anymore but he goes hard, has heart and DIGGS in the corners. He has more stitches in his face they guys have playoff games
So who’s the first NHL er that will try to lay out Bedard? Lucic?
Trouba
@FearTheWilson – I second the Trouba vote, and, of course, add the #43 Train, depending on what the Hawks’ schedule looks like. Looking at their schedule, though, we have the following possibilities:
Game #2 vs the B’s – Frederic or the LBOH
Game #3 vs the Habs – Xhekaj or Pezzetta
Game #4 vs the Leafs – HA! Trick answer – Bedard might smoke Nylander, assuming he’s still with TOR
Game #5 vs the Avs – MacKinnon or Colton
Game #6 – vs VGK – McNabb, Kolesar, or Eichel as the longshot
Games #7 & 8 – B’s and VGK again – rinse and repeat.
Game #9 – the dreaded Ky-Yoots – O’Brien or Ritchie and a bench-clearing punch-in-the-face contest.
The best entertainment would be Trouba & Tommy, though. We have to wait until almost mid-December for Tommy and January for Trouba. An even bigger question, though. How many games will DoPeS throw at the guy who delivers the hit? Or will it be the usual…the favorite entry on GP’s dart board – a $5000 fine!
Trouba trying to work out a 1 day with the Penguins for opening night.
Never liked Corey Perry when he faced the hawks in the past. Maybe he’ll grow on me playing for the hawks.
$4 million? Wow. Would have thought an offer of $2 million would have sealed the deal.
That salary probably makes him more difficult to trade at the deadline as well. He must have said, in a Dr. Evil tone with his pinky to his mouth, “I want $4,000,000 dollars”. Thinking all the while they’d laugh him out of the room, he was probably shocked when they said yes. I’ll be he said he was going to free agency unless he got that much.
Stupidity on the part of Davidson, but NHL GMs are gonna do stupid sometimes.
Cap Circumvention at its finest to meet the floor, now teams will follow this. Always the Hawks to set a negative trend
Who else out there are you giving 4 mil to out there right now? Agree that this and AA are an overpay, but how are people gonna get salty about overpaying for a vet in the twilight of his career for a year, especially when that team has a ton of 18 and 29 uo that are absolutely not NHL ready. What a stupid argument.
Didn’t realize overpaying a player counts as cap circumvention…if so the Blackhawks are far from the first team to “circumvent the cap” lol.
I mean, Perry was still a handful for the Leafs this last playoffs. An obvious overpay but why not?
I’ve always loved Perry’s game and would have loved to have him on the Leafs a few years ago when he left Anaheim.
This just in, Chicago to pay Matt Duchene and Blake Wheeler $10 million each next season, to get to the cap floor :-)
Wouldn’t surprise me
COLOSSAL WASTE OF MONEY!!!!!!!!!
The Blackhawks have made no secret of what they are doing. Get vets on overpay deals like Perry and AA, add vets on soon to expire bad deals, Hall and Tyler Johnson (carry over). Sprinkle in your young talent. And in the next year or two beat teams over the head with all the speed they have accumulated in the last few drafts.