Rumor: 2024-2025 Trade Rumors and Free Agency Talk | The Slow Crawl to the Season

hockeyfish

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Technically, the Avs are not above the cap because Nuke is treated like he was shot to Mars. According to CapWages, the Avs are $7.278M under the cap, but that actually includes 24 players, not 23, largely because there are 3 goalies active on the roster. So really $8.278M

In theory, Landy takes $7M of that space, should he return, leaving $1.278M. Nuke is going to require approximately $5M when he returns. So even cutting 4 players and using a roster of 20 - thus saving about $3.4M - the Avs are still a little bit short. So every dollar they can save by these paper transactions will ( I presume CMac has calculated this) slowly accrue enough room for Nuke.

TL;DR - Unless the Avs conserve cap space, they will be unable to fit both Nuke and Landy on the roster.
Are you taking into account Poolman's LTIR space?

BTW, seems like CapWages isn't being properly updated right now.

Edit to add* I put everything in a spreadsheet. Assuming a 23 man roster with Nuke @ 5, Landy @ 7, and Kaapo removed, the cap hit would be almost exactly 90M. Taking into account Poolman's 2 million in LTIR pool, everything fits just fine. The recent injuries do cloud it up a little though, which is why the team has been agressive with the paper transactions.
 
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NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS

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Nuke is probably by league day... IIRC the suspension cam the afternoon of the 13th, which is technically the next league day. So probably some confusion on if it ends the 14th or 13th. In the end, it is just one game, so NBD.

Cap wise... the Avs have about an 81m roster today. The ups and downs obviously change that and LTIR rules are tricky. But the day Nuke is activated, he's back at his 6.125m rate (though he won't count until that happens). That'll put the Avs right near the cap on the daily rate when activated. Which is why the Avs are pulling these daily moves. Bank as much as they can now as they don't really have room to activate Landy should the time come.
That one extra day for Nuke to get reinstated. $$$.

Make the cap room by trading Rantanen.
 

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Georgiev is probably gone if or when everyone returns including Landy to be cap compliant
 

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