Manson in general means the bottom 4 would be bad... the cap situation gets even tighter if you have to carry extras as well. Basically, the Avs can't afford a 9m player without 3 contracts going out. It would hurt the already fragile depth.
I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm simply stating that the Avs can't really afford a $9m guy with out major changes and more hits to the depth. Not matter how you slice it, you'd need RyJo, G, and one other contract ~4+m to be gone and those guys replaced mostly by near league minimum guys. Many of the current depth players, for all of their faults, are still leagues better than minimum guys.
It'll probably be something like that. There will be a pretty large reliance on cheap players and hoping guys translate well. My bet is that Ritchie will be give every opportunity to have a NHL spot and the Avs will try the Johnston route of development with him. Such is the cycle of a late window team.
I think the 4th line next season will be Pavel - Foudy - O'Connor if the Avs are looking to go cheap. 3rd defense pairing might also be Jones - Malinski who only see 12-14 minutes per night. Prosvetov will likely return as the backup as well for 1M or less.
It all sounds reasonable to me. The RyJo buyout would be a tough pill.. that's $2m against the cap for 2 years, but on the flip, they likely to have to spend assets to drop Manson too.
If anyone else was in Naz’s shoes they’d opt for the payday too. Avs made their choice when they chose to re-up Manson, which IMO is a worse contract dollar-for-dollar.
1. That won't be nearly enough to sign him.
People either forget this or are simply ignoring it. It may not be the right move, but surely Landy is going to attempt to play next season and the Avs have to plan their cap situation around that.
I'd say the odds are very low... 6 seasons is an awfully long time and there is buyout risk to future cap situations.
Yeah, this goes to show that Lindholm at 9M is not the way. You need value contracts to succeed in a salary cap world, and Lindholm at 9M is just not it. There is no salary cap efficiency to that contract even in year one, much less the last half of the contract. We really need for a draft pick to hit big or somehow acquire a young center prospect that another team has given up on prematurely.
If they are desperate to reset their team yes . Their management would , the ownership i’m not so sure
He's the player he was for the first two seasons tho.
The answer is in an even worse spot. The cap issues simply don't improve over the next few seasons and after that we are relying on the CBA negotiations to improve the situation (while the RSO somehow doesn't blow up). That doesn't mean thing are impossible, but odds are some hard decisions are coming down the pipeline.
100% agree. There really isn't much that can be tweaked right now. They have to live and die a bit by the risks they have taken. At the deadline they might be able to tweak on the fringes, but we are looking more at a middle 6 wing and bottom pairing defensemen as the higher impact. I'd also think they will grab a 2G by the deadline as insurance.
