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trick9 said:
Once he gets bought out next summer, he might not even receive a league-minimum contract offer in the NHL, but has to settle for a PTO / KHL.
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Do you think the Caps will buy him out? Will get 4 million next year, but gets a 2 mill penalty the year after. Doesnt look like the Caps will need the cap space next year with almost 20 million available with Backstrom on LTIR. Not a lot of expensive signings.

They will probably resign McMichael and Sandin. Then the question is what happens with Mantha. The rest of the guys with expiring contracts shouldnt cost much and they probably wont resign all with Lapierre, Miroshnichenko in the AHL who should get more games next year.

Not a lot to sign of UFA's to fill up the extra cap either. Reinhart, Guentzel, Stamkos, Duchene, Pavelski and Marchessault are the top producing UFA's.

Reinhart would be nice add, but probably will be very expensive and want a long contract. Duchene would be an upgrade for Kuznetsov so wouldnt mind him for a year or two. Marchessault aswell would be an upgrade on a short contract. Would at least make the offence better with Mantha+Kuznetsov out for those 2 and might bring us up from third worst in goals scored.
 
Shocked if they don't buy him out.

It's not just the cap space but he just displays complete lack of effort day after day. On top of that Capitals are one of the teams heavily invested in analytics. They should know that he’s analytically one of the worst players in the league and now that his offense is gone, he’s addition by subtraction. Do you really want player like that around the younger players and taking prime minutes away from everyone for a season, just to save 2m of cap space?
 
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Didn't realize Sabres fans were so down on Dylan Cozens and Tage Thompson. Both are interesting in different ways, both with financial risk. Wonder how they are viewed by their management.

Could also gamble on a "gently" used Josh Norris.

Not overly thrilled on many of the pending UFAs outside of Reinhart (unless Vancouver really f***s up the Pettersson situation), so I'm all for trying to find value on guys with term in their early-mid twenties.
 
Players to target:

Zegras: not a draft pick of Verbeek and seems to in the rumor mill. Plenty of skill but maybe not the true future 1C Caps need. They do sorely need his type of creativity up front though.

Byram: Avs have logjam at D and their top pair is signed for 5+ years. He could be sacrificed to balance out the roster.

Holtz: A goalscorer with great shot. NJ have Hughes, Hischier, Meier, Bratt, Palat, Mercer, Toffoli, Haula (and McLeod) in their top-9 with most of them signed long term.

Jiricek: Is rumored to want to leave the organization and would come with 1D-upside.

Byfield: Is unlikely, but maybe if Blake want some more umph in his lineup he would move him for Wilson?

Broberg: He hasn’t had the desired development path hoped for due to injuries. Is still making everyone around him play better and has plenty of tools to be a good-to-great top-4 D.
 
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MW6 said:
Players to target:

Zegras: not a draft pick of Verbeek and seems to in the rumor mill. Plenty of skill but maybe not the true future 1C Caps need. They do sorely need his type of creativity up front though.

Byram: Avs have logjam at D and their top pair is signed for 5+ years. He could be sacrificed to balance out the roster.

Holtz: A goalscorer with great shot. NJ have Hughes, Hischier, Meier, Bratt, Palat, Mercer, Toffoli, Haula (and McLeod) in their top-9 with most of them signed long term.

Jiricek: Is rumored to want to leave the organization and would come with 1D-upside.

Byfield: Is unlikely, but maybe if Blake want some more umph in his lineup he would move him for Wilson?

Broberg: He hasn’t had the desired development path hoped for due to injuries. Is still making everyone around him play better and has plenty of tools to be a good-to-great top-4 D.
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Great post. These are the types of players they should target, even if some have warts. I don't want to see any trades for low upside vets and I don't want them to hold their current vets if a good deal can be made
 
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MW6 said:
Players to target:

Zegras: not a draft pick of Verbeek and seems to in the rumor mill. Plenty of skill but maybe not the true future 1C Caps need. They do sorely need his type of creativity up front though.

Byram: Avs have logjam at D and their top pair is signed for 5+ years. He could be sacrificed to balance out the roster.

Holtz: A goalscorer with great shot. NJ have Hughes, Hischier, Meier, Bratt, Palat, Mercer, Toffoli, Haula (and McLeod) in their top-9 with most of them signed long term.

Jiricek: Is rumored to want to leave the organization and would come with 1D-upside.

Byfield: Is unlikely, but maybe if Blake want some more umph in his lineup he would move him for Wilson?

Broberg: He hasn’t had the desired development path hoped for due to injuries. Is still making everyone around him play better and has plenty of tools to be a good-to-great top-4 D.
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Watched Jiricek play in the AHL last year. Could tell as a rookie he was better than anyone in the Hershey line up. He'd be interesting to watch develop in Washington.
 
They ought to be squarely in the market trying to replicate last year's Sandin trade. Assets in with some flipped for cheap, younger talent with unrealized potential. Kaliyev fits the bill pretty well I think, even if he's more of a 3W/PP2 guy with some pace issues. There's room to at least give him a shot and he shouldn't cost terribly much. I'm sure the Kings would flip him for Dowd and likely add more on top.

They mainly need to weaponize their cap space and not be in a tremendous hurry spending it. Keep the standards high and be fully prepared to not cap out if fits don't materialize to their liking. Also continue to be wary committing term. Any moves over the next six months also ideally should be tailored to how Carbery wants to play, something that hasn't really happened yet. Not to say they should avoid upside plays like Kaliyev that maybe aren't great as far as tempo/work rate goes. Skill is skill and this being a transitional squad should mean that they're willing to take some risks and give out opportunity where for whatever reason it's not existed elsewhere.
 
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Langway said:
They ought to be squarely in the market trying to replicate last year's Sandin trade. Assets in with some flipped for cheap, younger talent with unrealized potential.
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I'd like this if they can find a fit, but I think it may be easier to simply unload assets for draft/prospect capital. There's over payments for rentals and trade pieces at the deadline each year, and I'd love for the Capitals to be the beneficiary of some of these again.

I also don't think they should be limiting their trade scope to older players (not that Langway implied that they would). Trading a 25 year old Steve Eminger (plus a 3rd) for a 1st round pick (John Carlson) was a franchise altering trade for Washington. If there's something similar out there for Fehervary or perhaps McMichael, I think they should absolutely entertain the offer.
 
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I don't see the need to buyout Kuznetsov. In terms of cap hit, it saves them $4M in 2024-25 (a year in which the Capitals are unlikely to be very competitive) and costs them $2M in 2025-26 (still very much TBD).
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They'd be best to retain to trade him, but reality is he cannot be on this team next year.
 
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I don't see the need to buyout Kuznetsov. In terms of cap hit, it saves them $4M in 2024-25 (a year in which the Capitals are unlikely to be very competitive) and costs them $2M in 2025-26 (still very much TBD).
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Not only that, Ted has a reluctance to buyout players contracts. When it was done with Nylander many years back, wasn't it during that NHL's buyout windows where contracts would not count against the salary cap? Schultz comes to mind when his last season of $3 million was bought out. Kings signed him and he ended up winning the Cup!
 
I would add Mittlestadt as a target. Buffalo is flush with forwards with Kulich, Ostlund, and Savoir not far off. Mittlestadt is due a raise and the Power/Dahlin extensions kick in next season
 
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I don't see the need to buyout Kuznetsov. In terms of cap hit, it saves them $4M in 2024-25 (a year in which the Capitals are unlikely to be very competitive) and costs them $2M in 2025-26 (still very much TBD).
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He occupies a pretty important roster spot, doesn’t contribute anything at either end of the ice, isn’t an example young players should follow and doesn’t help Ovechkin’s cause at all.

Why pay him $7.8M to do nothing of value on the ice when you could pay less money for him to leave the organization once and for all?
 
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He occupies a pretty important roster spot, doesn’t contribute anything at either end of the ice, isn’t an example young players should follow and doesn’t help Ovechkin’s cause at all.

Why pay him $7.8M to do nothing of value on the ice when you could pay less money for him to leave the organization once and for all?
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Because buying him out stretches his cap hit into a year that it otherwise wouldn't impact the team
 
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Alexander the Gr8 said:
He occupies a pretty important roster spot, doesn’t contribute anything at either end of the ice, isn’t an example young players should follow and doesn’t help Ovechkin’s cause at all.

Why pay him $7.8M to do nothing of value on the ice when you could pay less money for him to leave the organization once and for all?
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He needs to be jettisoned. Just to get him away from the franchise. Get away from the players, both young and old. Just get his negative influence out of here.
 
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