Kings cannot afford to trade Matt Roy until Clarke will establish himself during this year.
Roy isn’t going to get traded unless they get a similar RD at say under $2M to create cap space
LA is trying to win, trading Roy makes us worse. Don’t see how he would be available.
Leafs downgrade their d so it totally defeats the purpose.
There is very little incentive for Toronto to trade Muzzin and Murray , especially for 2 1 sts . Just not gonna happen . Murphy doesn’t have that kind of value . Muzzin is already a non factor against the cap and once bought out Murray has negligible impact as well ( this season anyway at 667k cap penalty).
it would help alot next year to not buy out murray this year. 1/2 the cap increase would be Murrays retention and nylander and matthews are probably both getting $2 mil in raises. that would be $6 extra mil and cap is only going up $4 mil roughly. they got bertuzzi and domi on 1 years but doubt that happens next year with allot more teams with space.
I’ve read as high as 7 . But you very well could be right. Either way you easily eat 2 million in cap rather than dumping a 1st or multiple 1 sts . I like Roy over Murphy if given the choice (
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Bit better imo but it’s the optics of moving another first to get out of a contract that might not fly w managementNHL salary cap increased to $83.5 million for 2023-24 season | NHL.com
Could rise by approximately $4 million for 2024-25
what about murphy and Tor 2026 2nd for 2026 1st and murray? bacially get rid of murray and pick up murph for moving down 32 picks in 2026.
If Murray is a part of the deal they're clearing cap space trading for either.
3.6 million dollars is chump change to these owners. The owner probably uses cash in their fire place to keep their kids warm at night.
Replace Cowan with a 1st and probably still need to add a 2nd. Murray with a late 1st and Murphy for Lilly and a late 2nd seem closer.
