If you are looking for the ridiculous tony, read the way in which you twist so hard in response to my post you completely missed my point. Maybe your brain is twisted around from all the punches you absorbed as a player so we'll go easy on you.
Regardless of effort and even if he really tries hard half the season, he still produces bunch of points. Not to mention his playoff performance. I just wish the whole trade Mikko talk would stop. He’s not getting traded. He’ll be re-signed
Cap goes up by 10M. Rantanen gets a 4M raise. Makar gets a 6M raise. That's the extra space used. But consider this: Drouin needs a raise, Blackwood or some other goalie needs a raise, Mittelstadt needs a raise, Lehkonen needs a raise, maybe even Colton. Girard needs a new deal or a replacement, Manson needs a replacement. We can't fill all these holes. Drouin walks we save 1.5M (comparing to replacing with 1M players), Lehkonen walks we save 3.5M. Colton walks we save 3M. It's hard to say how much Mittelstadt will make, but we'd have 8M to spend on his raise and a 1G raise. Best case scenario half to each is enough: Mitts signs for around 10M and 1G for 5M. Girard/Manson may be replaceable at their current cost. So what we have is 4 top six forwards, 4 top four defenseman, 1 starter goalie. Compared to our current strength we leave holes at Drouins, Lehkonens and Coltons spots. LOC and Wood are in the top six. No money for a good backup goalie.
This is if you assume the cap will go up by 10 mill and no more after that, but I don’t think it’s just gonna stop at that 10 mill. It’s probably keep going up to who knows how much
It won’t because after Mikko and Cale we don’t have anymore big contracts to give out, and like I mentioned before, the cap will keep going up. Nate is signed, and after the big 3, the biggest contracts are Toews and Val who are signed long term. I’m not counting Landy because we don’t know if he’s coming back. If he does then that changes things a little but still doable
Apparently there was an article fresh off the presses yesterday:
www.nhl.com
I’ve heard the cap will be close to 100 mill in 2 years. If it stays at 92.4 then yeah, obviously that changes everything and we can’t afford few players when we re-sign Mikko and Cale. It can’t stay at 92.4, it’s gotta go up moreApparently there was an article fresh off the presses yesterday:
NHL salary cap projected to jump to at least $92.4 million next season, Bettman says | NHL.com
Commissioner also discusses Olympics, CBA at Board of Governors meeting
Projected only at a 4.4M increase for next year at the moment. I don't see the cap increasing significantly over 10M in two years.
There is one more question mark to our roster, the Landeskog contract. It could remain as dead cap space, but in best case scenario Landy returns at a top six level player or we use the 7M to grab a fifth top six player. Oh and I forgot LOC raise goes in effect NEXT season so that's 1.5M raise for him.
So roster would be something like:
Landeskog / 7M forward - MacKinnon - Rantanen
Nichushkin - Mittelstadt - LOC
Wood - 1M forward- 1M forward
1M forward - 1M forward - 1M forward
Makar - Toews
Girard / 5M defenseman - Manson replacement 4.5M
1M defenseman - 1M defenseman
5M goalie
1M goalie
I miscalculated the 1G raise, Blackwood makes around 2.5M now so adding 4M to that would help us get a 6.5M goalie, but I also forgot the LOC raise and we're back to a 5M goalie.
There's also the issue of where to get replacement players that are good enough for those cap hits.
If we could sign Rants/Makar to 11M and 13M instead of 13M and 15M, we would have enough to keep either Lehkonen or Drouin in addition to the roster above.
If we let Rants walk instead of paying 13M, we'd have enough to keep Lehkonen, Drouin, Colton or equivalent, and then an extra 4M to use on other positions. I guess you could forget about center depth and instead put the Colton money and the remaining money towards a top six forward at 7M. Would be more like this:
Landeskog / 7M forward - MacKinnon - Nichushkin
Lehkonen - Mittelstadt - 7M forward
Wood - 1M forward - LOC
1M forward - 1M forward - 1M forward
Markar - Toews
Girard / 5M defenseman - Manson replacement 4.5M
1M defenseman - 1M defenseman
5M goalie
1M goalie
Generally I'd like to keep everyone who's been good for us rather than hope we find a better player for the same price. In any case cuts will have to be made, so it's not like we are free to give out favorable deals.
Since when does disagreeing with someone on a certain point and maybe NOT wanting to lose a very good player for nothing as a UFA (like we did with Stastny) = hatred of said player?
The underappreciation of Rantanen around here is something else. I think some fans have forgotten the days of not having superstar talent. CMac messed up, I fear, by not extending him this offseason. And if they didn't want to pay the price, they should have traded him for max value. The price is only going up from here, and now they're stuck in a hard place between coughing up or losing him for nothing. Hopefully they extend him soon and Rants understands how good he has it here with MacK and Makar and doesn't take them to the cleaners too badly.
would Mikko even make Team Canada?
Mikko would be the best winger on Team Canada lmao.
Not going to do your homework for you. Btw are you Finnish by chance my new friend?
