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Komisarek on waivers

PG said:
Waiving his NMC is as self-serving as it is "noble". The only way he gets back to the NHL is by playing somewhere.
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If Wade Redden could find work post compliance buyout, I'd wager a bet that Komisarek can as well.
 
I would guess that Nonis has been trying to trade Komisarek for at least a couple weeks.  If you couldn't give Komisarek away for next to nothing, I doubt anyone picks him up on waivers.

I had high hopes when he was signed as a free agent, as I'm sure the Leafs did too.  He has never really seemed the same since that fight with Lucic.
 
Guru Tugginmypuddah said:
I had high hopes when he was signed as a free agent, as I'm sure the Leafs did too.  He has never really seemed the same since that fight with Lucic.
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Even Dean Youngblood came back to overcome those kinds of demons.
 
I had high hopes when he was signed as a free agent, as I'm sure the Leafs did too.  He has never really seemed the same since that fight with Lucic.
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For sure. Seems like it shook his confidence yet he went right after Lucic last season and got filled in again.
 
Nik said:
Champ Kind said:
I disagree with the comment above that Komisarek is aweful at playing hockey.  I'm with a select few others on here that believe he mertited another chance to play, and likely wasn't as bad as he's being projected.  I do think, however, that pencils have erasers and once a something seems to become a mistake it needs to be corrected.  Komisarek could no longer play in Toronto, though I by no means think he can't play or that his days are done.
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But, say, if he passes through waivers unclaimed you'd have to figure that's a pretty strong statement, wouldn't you?
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My guess is you are saying if he goes unclaimed its a pretty strong statement about his hockey playing ability? I disagree.

The biggest problem for a team either trading for him or picking him up on waivers is his cost NEXT YEAR.  He's not a $4.5mil defenseman.  If his contract were up this year, he'd be tradeable and barring that, someone would DEFINITELY pick him up on waivers. 

The problem is, next year the cap goes down.  While some teams in the NHL can afford to pick him up this year and use their compliance buyout on him to avoid the cap hit next year, they simply don't think he's worth all of that.  I don't blame them. 

My bet is, he plays out the year on the Marlies (unless we get decimated by injuries on D), gets his compliance buyout and is in the NHL next year at a fraction of his current salary.
 
Why would another team waste their own buyout on someone else's mistake?  Komisarek doesn't bring huge skill to the table, there are far cheaper AHL guys that could probably do the same as he does for far less money.  I can't see another team claiming him at this money to then turn around and buy him out.
 
Coco-puffs said:
My guess is you are saying if he goes unclaimed its a pretty strong statement about his hockey playing ability? I disagree.
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I'm not saying it's a statement that's particularly newsworthy around these parts. "Nobody wants this guy, even for free, at his price point" is a pretty strong statement about what he's able to contribute even if it's a conclusion most of us have already drawn.
 
Zee said:
Why would another team waste their own buyout on someone else's mistake?  Komisarek doesn't bring huge skill to the table, there are far cheaper AHL guys that could probably do the same as he does for far less money.  I can't see another team claiming him at this money to then turn around and buy him out.
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You'd basically just be picking up a vet D for this year's run for nothing and then be throwing him away.
 
caveman said:
A team could pick him up to help out this season and then use the buyout.
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They'd actually have to pay him the buy-out money though. Do you really think a team is so desperate that they'd be willing to spend 5 million dollars or more(depending on what he's still owed for this season) to get 20 games out of Mike Komisarek?
 
Nik said:
caveman said:
A team could pick him up to help out this season and then use the buyout.
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They'd actually have to pay him the buy-out money though. Do you really think a team is so desperate that they'd be willing to spend 5 million dollars or more(depending on what he's still owed for this season) to get 20 games out of Mike Komisarek?
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1.25 mil is not that much for a vet that could help during the playoff push.
 
Nik said:
caveman said:
A team could pick him up to help out this season and then use the buyout.
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They'd actually have to pay him the buy-out money though. Do you really think a team is so desperate that they'd be willing to spend 5 million dollars or more(depending on what he's still owed for this season) to get 20 games out of Mike Komisarek?
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Uh..no.
 
nutman said:
Nik said:
caveman said:
A team could pick him up to help out this season and then use the buyout.
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They'd actually have to pay him the buy-out money though. Do you really think a team is so desperate that they'd be willing to spend 5 million dollars or more(depending on what he's still owed for this season) to get 20 games out of Mike Komisarek?
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1.25 mil is not that much for a vet that could help during the playoff push.
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He's still owed money for NEXT season though, that's the issue.
 
nutman said:
Nik said:
caveman said:
A team could pick him up to help out this season and then use the buyout.
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They'd actually have to pay him the buy-out money though. Do you really think a team is so desperate that they'd be willing to spend 5 million dollars or more(depending on what he's still owed for this season) to get 20 games out of Mike Komisarek?
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1.25 mil is not that much for a vet that could help during the playoff push.
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You get that it's called a buy-out and not a free-out, right?
 
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