Signing the Rfas not much cap space now is Copp staying a Jet

Équipe: 2021-22 Jets de Winnipeg

Date de création initiale: 1 août 2021

Publié: 1 août 2021

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Adding the almost $10 million combined in Schmidt and Dillon eliminated any wiggle room the Jets had to sign their RFAs and do anything else.
So here I signed Pionk to the Morrissey deal, signed Copp to a B.Tanev/Goodrow type contract, bridged Stanley for a million, sent Beaulieu to the minors for a bit of cap relief and kept Niku as a cheap 7th dman but in reality it's likely the Jets keep Beaulieu up and demote Niku, if he's claimed so be it. I put Little on LTIR as that's where he'll be unfortunately, so with that done and no 13th/14th forwards there's only $851K in cap space which seems an unlikely way for the Jets to operate this season, maybe they grind a million off of Pionk's deal and a few hundred thousand off of Copp's which would afford them one spare body at league minimum and a bit more cap space or two league minimum forwards and the $851K in space but again that's with Bealieau down to the AHL which seems unlikely considering how the Jets and Maurice roll, Stanley could be a tad bit cheaper too but that won't make much difference really.

Maybe Pionk signs a short term deal for a cheaper AAV then we think, guess it's possible, don't think that's the best move to make but guess it's possible, maybe Pionk isn't going to be getting as much $$/term as we think he is either, could be around a $4M×4 deal similar to D.Toews got, that'd help from a cap perspective but I'd rather see Pionk signed long term, he's the Jets best dman and RHD are hard to find.

Will be interesting to see who gets what or if Copp or possibly even DeMelo are on there way out, anyway as what's shown here the Jets cap situation is pretty tight to get their RFAs signed since the two trades.