Florida - Edmonton - Toronto cap-usage

[jonlin]

The bolded is simply false. The most radical thing they might have to do is move out Kane or not keep Skinner.

Well, They have contracts for 60M for 2025-2025, not including Draisaitl, Bouchard, Skinner, Perry, Brown, Ryan, Ceci. Let`s say the cap goes up to 92M. Draisaitl at 13,5M and Bouchard at 9,5M is 23M. That leaves 9M to sign 7 players to get a 23 man roster. That is a cap-crunch.

 

[Fourier]

Well, They have contracts for 60M for 2025-2025, not including Draisaitl, Bouchard, Skinner, Perry, Brown, Ryan, Ceci. Let`s say the cap goes up to 92M. Draisaitl at 13,5M and Bouchard at 9,5M is 23M. That leaves 9M to sign 7 players to get a 23 man roster. That is a cap-crunch.

As I said I expect the cap to be more than $92M. In fact the 5% increase alone would now take it to $92.4M but lets work with the $92M.

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan $5,125,000 LW, C NMC UFA - 4	McDavid, Connor $12,500,000 C NMC UFA - 1	Hyman, Zach $5,500,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 3
Arvidsson, Viktor $4,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Draisaitl, Leon $13,300,000 C, LW UFA	Savoie, Matthew $886,667 ( $1,000,000) C RFA - 2
Kane, Evander $5,125,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Henrique, Adam $3,000,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Lavoie, Raphael $800,000 RW, C RFA
Janmark, Mattias $1,450,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Holloway, Dylan $1,200,000 LW, C RFA	Brown, Connor $2,000,000 RW, LW UFA
Hamblin, James $775,000

Ekholm, Mattias $6,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Bouchard, Evan $9,500,000 RD RFA	Skinner, Stuart $2,600,000 G UFA - 1
Nurse, Darnell $9,250,000 LD NMC UFA - 5	Broberg, Philip $1,200,000 LD RFA	Pickard, Calvin $1,000,000 G UFA - 1
Kulak, Brett $2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Stecher, Troy $787,500 RD UFA - 1	G3
LD4	Wanner, Maximus $828,333 RD RFA - 1

That is a cap compliant 22 man roster. The main difference from the current roster is no Ceci and no Skinner. Hardly a radical change and you will notice that I left Kane on the roster and Nurse is still there. Move out Kane and you have an additional $5.125M to spend where you need it.

Pretty much every contender in the League will have a tight cap.

 

[Tanknation]

And teams like Buffalo, Ottawa, Montreal are spending to the cap to be bottom feeders

Why bring up teams that are trying to get out of a rebuild, or a team right in a rebuild that will purposely take on bad contracts for picks into this conversation. Very Odd....

 

[HugginThePost]

Surprised by four things in this thread:

1. McDavid is only getting a $2m raise - not a chance in hell
2. Drai is going to accept a deal paying him the same or less than Mathews - not a chance in hell
3. Savoie is now considered some sort of "key" piece for the Oilers
4. Bouchard is going to accept the same contract as Nurse (Yes, I know he's a RFA, but we've seen what happens when you bridge D-men)

As for the cap going up, great. That means teams with a lot more cap space can acquire really good players, whereas teams up against it can't.

 

[pb1300]

you could be right. However, you really think Bobrovsky will be around the save the Panthers for a couple of wins ? Or a 40 year old one

You think McDavid will do anything in a Game 7, or just skate around in circles?

 

[RogerRoger]

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Also, even if you include Bobrovsky & Ekblad, the panthers are still have the superior cap-structure, but it just makes the panthers look so much better if we just ignore those contracts, right?


McDavid strikes me as the type of dude that is more likely to take a discount if he hasn't won one by 2026, but what do I know.

According to whomever vote for these, this should be the Stars GM placing it on the Stars GM.