Revisiting Parise

The isles aren’t giving barzal a 4 year deal and walking him to UFA.

Isles are not trading for Parise - they need to pay beau, pelech, and sorokin next offseason

ignore the contract years minus toews they were gonna be 7 each but forgot to change.. they have the cap room for those moves still if they offload hickey and varly and potentially eberle or bailey if Ishakov/Holmstrom pan out don't want parise but hypothetically this is how i saw it fitting

With a flat cap , the isles can not afford to take parise contract unless they retain 50%, which they won’t do.

I’m not sure if you got the idea for toews contract from staple, but there is no chance he takes that contract. He’s our 2nd best defenseman. Pulock will get 6.5 on a 7 year deal.

Beau gets at least 4.5 next season and if sorokin plays like shestyerkin he’ll get a long term deal at 6.5-7 mill.

The point is the isles can’t add salary. They will need to get production from guys on ELC

Exactly, which is why we need Lafreneire. Tbh I want the isles to lose to the panthers for the 1/8 shot of Laf, he’d b a game changer. Side note: now we really need an Isles666

Im basically rooting for them to win but I won’t be disappointed if they lose. I want them to win so barzal gets more playoff experience , but a chance at the #1 pick isn’t bad either.

Once Andrew Ladd goes on LTIR, maybe you can do the honor