Speculation: How does Dallas make cap space in the offseason?

[starsfan86]

Let’s say they move Dumba’s full cap hit without anything back. They’ll have $9m to fill four bottom six wingers, a top4 dman, and a couple extras. That’s extremely tight….Duchene is not taking that much of a discount. They’ll need to go bargain bin hunting for next year. 26-27 season they’ll be fine with the big cap jump.

Yea they may need to move on from Marchment too unfortunately. We’ll see what happens.

 

[M88K]

Let’s say they move Dumba’s full cap hit without anything back. They’ll have $9m to fill four bottom six wingers, a top4 dman, and a couple extras. That’s extremely tight….Duchene is not taking that much of a discount. They’ll need to go bargain bin hunting for next year. 26-27 season they’ll be fine with the big cap jump.

They only really need a bottom pairing rd, with or without Dumba.
Someone to play next to Bichsel
Harley -Heiskanen
Lindell-Lyubushkin
Bichsel-anyone but dumba

 

[AvatarAang]

Dallas trades Rantanen back to Carolina in the offseason.

“When Brindamour showed up, he said, ‘There’s one team you'll go play for and you're not leaving for 8 years.’”

 

[Gregor Samsa]

I’ve always wanted to see what would happen if a GM refused to acknowledge the salary cap and how the league would handle it

 

[Lunatik]

Let’s say they move Dumba’s full cap hit without anything back. They’ll have $9m to fill four bottom six wingers, a top4 dman, and a couple extras. That’s extremely tight….Duchene is not taking that much of a discount. They’ll need to go bargain bin hunting for next year. 26-27 season they’ll be fine with the big cap jump.

It would really make sense for Dallas to target Rasmus Andersson in the offseason, getting a top 4 defenseman making less than $5m would exactly what they need... with Bourque being a prime candidate for an offer sheet and the Flames needing a young RHS Center, it really feels like the perfect storm for a deal. I would think Andersson @ 50% retention and Bourque would be fairly close in value.

to Dallas
- Rasmus Andersson (50% retained $2,775,000)
to Calgary
- Mavrik Bourque (RFA)
- Matt Dumba (3,750,000)
- 3rd in 2025 (for taking Dumba)

I’ve always wanted to see what would happen if a GM refused to acknowledge the salary cap and how the league would handle it

Likely all a fine, loss of draft picks and a cancellation of the contract(s) that caused them to exceed the cap.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Resign Benn and Granlund, let go of Dadanov, Ceci. Benn knows better than anyone else that if he wants a cup before he retires he needs to take a heavy discount.

 

[DesertPenguin]

That top line RD is just as hard to find as a top 15 C in the league IMO.
Maybe they go big, drop a lot of salary in trade and trade for Dobson?

Karlsson with 50% retention for Borque's rights ++?

 

[TheBeard]

Sharks gonna end up taking Seguin and Bischel for future considerations.