The cap is always a great subject! I’m actually comfortable with the salary structure of the team in general. Would have liked Marner and Auston for more term but willy’s contract looks better by the projection of his production and his quality of play. ( especially under keefe).
Tavares,Matthews are as high a quality 1-2 center punch as any in the league and Willy, Marner are equally as much quality on the right wing as any in the league.
Johnsson,Kapanen,Kerfoot,Korshkov,Mikheyev Moore,Engvall,Marchment
Rielly,Dermott,Holl,Liljegren,Sandin and a six/seven seems probable.
So many options on the Marlies that i am not concerned when i consider the quality of the players we already have signed. Much more comfortable also because Keefe is the coach to keep developing players that are young and coming in to the team. I am not concerned he will destroy our prospects confidence at any time in the process. I never though that our old coach was good for confidence of our players to the degree I believe in Keefe.
Fluidity is a expected result beyond the core players in our lineup.
Core pieces going forward:
Frederik Andersen —Goal
Matthews
Tavares
Nylander
Marner
Johnsson
Kapanen
Rielly
Dermott
Sandin
Liljegren
Thats a solid 11 core players off the top of my head. Then Dubas needs to have ingenuity in filling in the rest as we go. The fringes as Dubas says.
I will say this with regard to trading. I would move Kerfoot before i would move Johnsson or Kapanen. I actually wouldn’t flinch if Dubas moved Kerfoot in the summer and used that money to sign Mikheyev. Thats a personal preference on money use and asset retention for example.
Fully acceptable for any poster to expect trades.