Fourier
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You can't count Neal's buyout and the Brown's overage if you are talking about the year McDavid's deal is up.Thanks, I forgot. Did the Pens also have bad contracts and buyouts? It's a good thing our 4 guys are at 42% of the cap next year, have to add Brown's 3.25, Neal's 1.9 and Soup's 1.1. That's 6 million bucks right there. When Drai/Bouch kick in we owe 2.2 to JC, when McD's kicks in will be 2.6 million. That's 2.6 less to play with as these big contracts kick in.
You've proven winning a cup at 46% can be done but this is going to on the high end. Just posted the same stats for the 4 most recent cup winners. Ideally this is where you want to be, especially when paying JC not to play here. It all adds up.
As to bad contracts, aside from Nurse who is already factored into the equation which bad contracts do you see the Oilers having in the 2025-26 and 2026-27 seasons? If anything they have key players on cheap deals.
There are still a lot of unknowns that could impact things. Maybe a guy like Savoie takes off and you have an impact high end forward at $880K.
The Pens had Sergei Plotnikov earning the equivalent of $5.2M for which he delivered them all of 2 assists. Trevor Daley was getting the equivalent of $4.6M. The also had Fleury at the equivalent of $8M sitting on the bench for the playoffs.