Salary Cap: Salary cap - season 2025-26

[Snuggs]

Keep the cap space, Just wait for McDavid/Makar to hit UFA next year.

8 years 166.4 million, 20.8 million dollars. The Yzerplan all along. '26-'27

 

[Dotter]

Yzerman could sign Marner, Tavaras and trade for Bo Byram if he moves some salary. That would instantly put Detroit in the playoffs, and maybe even be a threat.

 

[deca guard]

This is a good question. But I did find some data to think about.

Mitchell Marner has played all 3 years with either Matthews or Tavares.

Marner With Matthews (207 games)
- GF/60 = 3.55

Matthews without Marner (222 games)
- GF/60 = 3.97

Marner without Matthews (230 games)
- GF/60 = 2.85

So Matthews has scored more without Marner, then playing mostly with Nylander. Marner scores a lot less without Matthews. This data was only 5-on-5, because they always play together on power-play, so I excluded it totally.

They 5-on-5 drop without Matthews is ~20% for Marner's stats.

So there's less scoring, but when I look on corsi, Marner makes it always better in transition, and Matthews is worse in transition without him. This is tough to count (the effect on points), but there's also more in hockey than just raw production.

But, in a nutshell, without a Matthews level scorer on his line, 100-points/80 games Marner (his last 3-season average production) could probably became 80-points / 80 games player at somewhere else.

This has happened a bit with Mikko Rantanen, now when he is not with MacKinnon and especially with Makar.

But what if Marner plays with DeBrincat, does he become better scorer? Or Larkin, could he score more with Raymond? Or having two great playmakers? What does that make on your second line?

very interesting , thanx henkka ! i forgot about tavares also being around for marner to assist . between mathews n tavares theres been two great finishers for him to feed . from my point of veiw who already didnt want to offer him big coin now i really dont want to . that said ufa are free assets so its a difficult decission for a gm to pass up , real high stakes gambling .

 

[Henkka]

He has the same JFresh overall rating as Dylan Larkin, 96%.

 

[Run the Jewels]

Yzerman could sign Marner, Tavaras and trade for Bo Byram if he moves some salary. That would instantly put Detroit in the playoffs, and maybe even be a threat.

Byram has never played many PK mins, which suggests he's probably not a good PK'er. I'd prefer Gavrikov who's played loads of PK mins over the past 4 years. The PK was historically bad, we cannot rely on guys like Chiarot, Holl and Petry to PK any longer.

 

[Run the Jewels]

After so many years still paying Aby. Was worth it , I don't think so. Yzerman acting crazy sometimes.

Yzerman treated Abby with respect rather than pull a Lou and bury his ass in the AHL. Cap hasn't been an issue and Abby gets to go out on the market to see if he has any value - shocker, he didn't - and gets to retire.