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Pierce Hawthorne said:
Yeah, but also with the cap going up the way it is it becomes less and less of an issue with each passing year.


Like, if he's $1M overpaid today, by year 3 that's probably like $500k overpaid.


Quite frankly, and I think we're already seeing it with this Kreider trade... Some teams are going to struggle to get enough salary on their team.
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He’s also regressing in that time period and is already an injury risk. The term is what makes that contract terrible. I don’t see anyone taking it on unless its a capdump in a bigger deal or the sweetener is > 2nd.
 
bert said:
No one wants D men that size making 5 million a year unless they are named Quinn Hughes or Lane Hutson. Small D cores dont win. They cant stay healthy and its just not the way to build a team.
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Youre talkng out of your ass. Every team would take an elite breakout passer and that is what Girard is. Playoff time, teams went after that line but more for Mansons inability to breakout the puck. They didnt send it to Griards side as much as possible. Add in analytics proving he doesnt get the MacKinnon led o zone starts and often facing oppositions best, plus no PP time, every gm would see the potential. He has Q Hughes like blueline maneuvering.

Im not saying give him PP1 time and watch him flourish, but youre kidding yourself if you think he doesnt get the same deal+ on his next contract somewhere. He could be on the Sharks top pairing or a 2nd line guy on every team in the league.
 
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landy said:
Youre talkng out of your ass. Every team would take an elite breakout passer and that is what Girard is. Playoff time, teams went after that line but more for Mansons inability to breakout the puck. They didnt send it to Griards side as much as possible. Add in analytics proving he doesnt get the MacKinnon led o zone starts and often facing oppositions best, plus no PP time, every gm would see the potential. He has Q Hughes like blueline maneuvering.

Im not saying give him PP1 time and watch him flourish, but youre kidding yourself if you think he doesnt get the same deal+ on his next contract somewhere. He could be on the Sharks top pairing or a 2nd line guy on every team in the league.
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Girard is a proven playoff dud. Plays scared and gets injured when the hitting picks up. He gets targeted by the opposing team. These are facts.

No contending team can afford a small, soft offensively challenged puck moving LHD at 5M. Colorado can’t win a cup with him in the lineup and that’s why you want him out!
 
Djp said:
Cap wages gas them with 4D and $1.9M in space with a 12/4/2 roster

Filling out roster with 4 players F/3D for $5M puts them $3M over

If they trade $4M in Colton and fill with a $1M player they would be cap compliant.
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The Avs are in a position where they don't really HAVE to do anything. The roster below has no changes to the current roster other than signing Malinski at $1.5m. It's a 21 man roster with $557,500 in cap room remaining, meaning you could go to around $2m with Malinski if that's what it takes, and still have a 21 man roster. Or squeeze him down to $1.25m to leave over $800k for a 22nd roster player.

That said, in this scenario ~$2m would need to be found when O'Connor returns from LTIR mid-season (he was recently ruled out for 6 months), and having Middleton and/or Aamodt as everyday guys has it's risks. Moving some money from bottom 6 wing (Colton/Wood) to 3LD (or to Drouin) makes a lot of sense, and the Avs do need to restock their draft pick capital a bit too which that would potentially help with depending on trade returns.

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Pierce Hawthorne said:
Yeah, but also with the cap going up the way it is it becomes less and less of an issue with each passing year.


Like, if he's $1M overpaid today, by year 3 that's probably like $500k overpaid.


Quite frankly, and I think we're already seeing it with this Kreider trade... Some teams are going to struggle to get enough salary on their team.
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Further to that, it's worth noting that Kreider's contract was front-loaded, so his salary in the next two years is $5m (including signing bonus in 2026) with a $6.5m caphit. For a team like Anaheim that won't want to be anywhere close to the cap ceiling he's effectively a $5m player, not a $6.5m player since they don't need to worry about the cap ceiling, only actual dollars paid.

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Miles Wood's contract is also front-loaded, so he's only due $2.5m this year and then $2m the last three years of his deal. So a team like Anaheim (or other teams not operating near the cap ceiling) his effective cap hit would be $2m from 2026 to 2029 when the cap ceiling is going to explode upwards.

So not only will $2m be an increasingly insignificant contract with the rising cap, but as we've already seen with Kreider/Anaheim front-loaded contracts like this will likely be sought after by budget teams in the next couple of years.

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Richard88 said:
Further to that, it's worth noting that Kreider's contract was front-loaded, so his salary in the next two years is $5m (including signing bonus in 2026) with a $6.5m caphit. For a team like Anaheim that won't want to be anywhere close to the cap ceiling he's effectively a $5m player, not a $6.5m player since they don't need to worry about the cap ceiling, only actual dollars paid.

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Miles Wood's contract is also front-loaded, so he's only due $2.5m this year and then $2m the last three years of his deal. So a team like Anaheim (or other teams not operating near the cap ceiling) his effective cap hit would be $2m from 2026 to 2029 when the cap ceiling is going to explode upwards.

So not only will $2m be an increasingly insignificant contract with the rising cap, but as we've already seen with Kreider/Anaheim front-loaded contracts like this will likely be sought after by budget teams in the next couple of years.

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Except no one wants a broken cooked Miles Wood. Unless
The Avs pay for someone to take him on.

Avs should just buy him out.
 
Junohockeyfan said:
Girard is a proven playoff dud. Plays scared and gets injured when the hitting picks up. He gets targeted by the opposing team. These are facts.

No contending team can afford a small, soft offensively challenged puck moving LHD at 5M. Colorado can’t win a cup with him in the lineup and that’s why you want him out!
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