For shits, imagine they did make that trade I just mentioned at the deadline:
Dowd(@650k) + Lindgren for 2024 1st
Next year we would have:
Nuke - Mack - Mikko
Landy - Mitts - Lehky
Wood - Colton - Kovalenko
LOC - Dowd - ????
Toews - Makar
Girard - Manson
Behrens - ????
George*
Lindgren
And if you assume ~$6M for Mitts. That group would be at ~$85.7M, so roughly $2M left for the remaining spots. Enough space to fill out a 20 man roster for sure.
And quite frankly at that point I'd argue George is the easy move to create the necessary remaining cap space to get to a 22 man roster, and just run Lindgren/Annunen as 1A/1B.
I have been saying this for awhile, but did anything change for you? I thought you were in the camp that didn't expect the Avs to dismantle their newly found center depth.
He's saying the opposite of what you think.
He's saying no matter what trades they make to get cap compliant, Colton isn't going to be part of those trades. Meaning he is staying.
What’s lehky value, 2 firsts out of the question?
Call me crazy but I think you could get a pretty high 1st for him, I'd bet teams like Buffalo, Ottawa, Detroit, Seattle(Especially if they steal Rod),
Arizona Utah would all be lining up for him.