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Which teams are best positioned going forward with the salary cap about to explode?

team's who have their guys locked up for long term are probably in great spots to retain talent or add more to it:

Devils are in a good spot with Hughes, Hischier, Bratt, Meier, Hamilton (tradeable if needed), Markstrom all locked up for solid deals

Hurricanes are really good and probably can retain rantanen pretty easily now, they have everyone they need (Jarvis, Slavin, Aho, Svechnikov) all locked up for at least a few years and they have players who are declining/old (Burns, Andersen) coming off the books and also have potential ELCs (Nishikin, Blake taking a bigger role, Nadeau). I think they are set up the best in terms of having the core locked up, being able to lock them up, and also being able to surround their team with good pieces

I think teams like Leafs for example aren't in as good of a spot as Marner and JT are up for contracts right as we find this out and Matthews will need another one right at the peak of the increases. Also having stolarz run out next year could hurt depending on what level of a goalie he is
 
Aashir said:
team's who have their guys locked up for long term are probably in great spots to retain talent or add more to it:

Devils are in a good spot with Hughes, Hischier, Bratt, Meier, Hamilton (tradeable if needed), Markstrom all locked up for solid deals

Hurricanes are really good and probably can retain rantanen pretty easily now, they have everyone they need (Jarvis, Slavin, Aho, Svechnikov) all locked up for at least a few years and they have players who are declining/old (Burns, Andersen) coming off the books and also have potential ELCs (Nishikin, Blake taking a bigger role, Nadeau). I think they are set up the best in terms of having the core locked up, being able to lock them up, and also being able to surround their team with good pieces

I think teams like Leafs for example aren't in as good of a spot as Marner and JT are up for contracts right as we find this out and Matthews will need another one right at the peak of the increases. Also having stolarz run out next year could hurt depending on what level of a goalie he is
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Oilers got lucky with locking up Draisaitl before the cap numbers were released, also!
 
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Montreal has Caufield, Slaf, Suzuki all signed for under $8M

Only Hutson and Demidov will likely need big raises

Fowler/Reinbacher coming in on ELC as well
 
The red wings are in a pretty great situation. All of their good impact players outside of edvinsson are signed to good deals if not outright steals. And their bad contracts they signed will be easier to move and manage with the cap going up 15 million the next 2 seasons. But tbh the cap rising this much puts pretty much everyone in good positions.
 
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This is good for everybody.
But the Panthers should now be able to keep the entire band together. Unless Bennett and Ekblad just want to chase the highest dollar figure, we should be able to offer them $13m.
 
Realm said:
I wouldn't say that, Bouchard and McDavid are now up this summer. One slight discount and now have to deal with 2 bloated contracts.
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Bouchard has tanked a lot of what he would've gotten with his play this season. McDavid is the best player in the world... so I guess if you consider whatever he's gonna make "bloated", you do you.

And Drai's "slight discount" is going to look like a massive steal once Marner and Rantanen sign their new deals.
 
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Why bother listing small market teams that wouldn’t spend 105 mil on their team if they could do it today? Toronto, Montreal, New York, and a handful of others will “benefit” on paper but likely end up with a bunch of overpaid guys on NMCs that end up LTIRetiring somewhere small to artificially get them above the newly raised cap floor.
 
Martin Skoula said:
Why bother listing small market teams that wouldn’t spend 105 mil on their team if they could do it today? Toronto, Montreal, New York, and a handful of others will “benefit” on paper but likely end up with a bunch of overpaid guys on NMCs that end up LTIRetiring somewhere small to artificially get them above the newly raised cap floor.
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One small market team’s owner is worth $15Bn+, so maybe that helps you understand why? SMH
 
Martin Skoula said:
Why bother listing small market teams that wouldn’t spend 105 mil on their team if they could do it today? Toronto, Montreal, New York, and a handful of others will “benefit” on paper but likely end up with a bunch of overpaid guys on NMCs that end up LTIRetiring somewhere small to artificially get them above the newly raised cap floor.
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Because you possibly underestimate those teams? None of these owners are poor. Very few of them are content to be perennial also-rans.

For example, every time someone questions Carolina's ability to spend money, we get some sort of quip from Tom Dundon like "These people don't understand how much a billion dollars is."

Do I think he'd spend frivolously? No. He's demonstrated staunch fiscal shrewdness. But, if it made sense? If he thought it was the difference between making the playoffs and going deep, possibly winning a Cup?

He absolutely could and would go dollar-for-dollar with the Leafs, confident he spends wiser and more savvy than they do.
 
Ottawa for sure.

Everyone is locked in below 8.35M right now and all their older players are on expiring deals (Giroux and Hamonic are in their last year, Perron and Jensen have another).

They’ll have room to re-sign their key players, younger players and add on top of that.
 
Surprised I haven’t seen the Jackets mentioned, one of the best young cores in the league that’s only getting better and 30+ mil in cap space available.
 
MDCSL said:
Surprised I haven’t seen the Jackets mentioned, one of the best young cores in the league that’s only getting better and 30+ mil in cap space available.
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Yeah, but all their young pieces are going to need to be resigned in the coming years and they’re going to take a big chunk of the cap. Won’t be surprised to see Fantilli in particular taking up 10M on his next deal…
 
Chan790 said:
Because you possibly underestimate those teams? None of these owners are poor. Very few of them are content to be perennial also-rans.

For example, every time someone questions Carolina's ability to spend money, we get some sort of quip from Tom Dundon like "These people don't understand how much a billion dollars is."

Do I think he'd spend frivolously? No. He's demonstrated staunch fiscal shrewdness. But, if it made sense? If he thought it was the difference between making the playoffs and going deep, possibly winning a Cup?

He absolutely could and would go dollar-for-dollar with the Leafs, confident he spends wiser and more savvy than they do.
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For a single run or a short window sure, but you’re talking about adding some premium upper middle class depth without huge term + a Rantanen extension maybe. I can’t see them maxxing out that extra cap space year in year out on the type of 7x15+ that star UFAs are going to be getting. There’s a difference in the tangible benefit between being able to keep Pesce and add a another top-6 W at 7 mil a year vs coming out as the top bidder on McDavid’s brand new 7x16 with 20mil signing bonuses every July 1st. The latter is likely going to stay as the regularly scheduled Toronto/NYR UFA mistake that kills their contention window.
 
Chicagoooooooo

We’re going to have like $70 milly in space. We’re going to sign McDavid, Kaprizov, Marner, and Rantanen baby
 
Florida is in the best spot.

Their cup-winning core is locked up and they're in a tax-advantaged state. If they spend to the cap, they will have a dominant team on the ice for the next 3-4 years if not more.
 
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