Sounding like toro may be ready before brown.
Worth noting that Scandella and Perunovich are both on LTIR and the way we structured the moves gives us $1.66M in cap space to utilize while those two are on LTIR. That gives us much more call-up breathing room than we had last year and provides some flexibility for a deadline addition (assuming Scandella is out for the entire season).
Unless someone else is on ltir (or season goes south and we deal off expiring guys) this basically means Scandella is out all (regular) season. Going to be near impossible to activate him until playoffs. But worked out for Kucherov in Tampa so maybe he can come back and lead us to Cup.
Scandella > Kucherov
It's actually not too difficult to add him back onto the roster. We would need to shed $973k to activate him. You can accomplish that be either running a 22 man roster (which means sending down the two cheapest players) or by moving Mikkola. There are a few other ways to do it, but those are the two most obvious.
And moving Mikkola is a plausible scenario. We only signed him to a 1 year deal and when it expires, he'll be a UFA. Maybe he's still part of the future, but he only received a contract that will be easy to move or simply walk away from.
Simply waiving him would ensure that we clear enough space to bring back Scandella. We'd save $1M by burying him in the AHL if he cleared waivers, which is just enough to bring back Scandella. I think he would be claimed, but we don't even need to worry about getting stuck with him and not being able to bring back Scandella. If we want to plug in Scandella over Mikkola and are comfortable losing Mikkola, we can do so.
Scandella > Kucherov
But yes, even though the rules dictate that a player must be activated once healthy, the math dictates that Scandella’s going to have to be classified as injured until the playoffs start. They’d have to trade someone away to have the Cap room to activate Scandella mid-season now.
No, we were just that banged up, he had 2 points in 28 playoff games and 2 points in 12 playoff games. He's not a threat to anyone in the top 9 with a healthy lineup. Scoring has never really been a part of his game either.
That's true for King, not Nolan. And King had a much better scoring record coming up than Toropchenko has had.
Walker, Leivo?
Brown, Walker, Leivo are all guys I'd give a chance to first because their scoring upside is higher. Toropchenko is perfectly designed for a 4th line role. Maybe in time, he develops more of a scoring streak like Barbie did.
