From my feeling I jumped around capfriendly to look at RWs with term that I felt could at least be possibilities of being traded in general, and would directly impact the Krug contract. Not including Palmieri or Kreider to get some different names to discuss. Some are just names that popped out to me, not saying I'd go for them or if it's realistic.
Although I did not take those other things like DeBrusk and Chara into consideration.
I threw a quick list together, in no particular order.
Player | Cap Hit | Final year of contract |
Voracek | 8.25 | 2024 |
Saad | 6 | 2021 |
Trochek | 4.75 | 2022 |
Tuch | 4.75 | 2026? |
Meier | 6 | 2023 |
Hertl | 5.6 | 2022 |
E. Lindholm | 4.85 | 2024 |
Arvidsson | 4.25 | 2024 |
Zucker | 5.5 | 2023 |
Silfverberg | 5.25 | 2024 |
Rakell | 3.7 | 2022 |
D. Brown | 5.8 | 2022 |
Carter | 5.2 | 2022 |
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I feel like Trochek could be a possibility with the rumors that were out there, though not sure why FLA would trade him, especially in-division. Some of these guys are on the list just because of their teams' situations (SJ, LA, ANA, NSH) this season so you never know.
The other day i played around with capfriendly starting with next year and how trades this year might work out. Maybe I over-simplified things, but I felt it was possible with subtracting Moore, Miller, Backes (granted if he's 100% off the books), extending the RFAs to reasonable contracts, and if the incomming RW was in the 6-7 mil range, Krug in the same area, it left room to fudge those extensions and sign a cheaper backup. I'd post it for an idea of numbers but it timed out and didnt save. Long story short I think it is possible to improve the forward group, but i think it will still be at the expense of the D to an extent. But, with the depth of guys seemingly ready to make a jump, this is probably the season to make the deals.