Keeping the Band Together

kappy isnt staying for under two mil, and i dont think they will pay erod three mil to play fourth line

Detroit accepts, and if you don't want Nylander we'll take him too.

It's not really up to Kapanen though, right - he's an RFA and his QO is only like $840,000. There's room to give him $1.5mil. He could try to fight it in arbitration. If so, let him go and bump up Erod.

Speaking of Erod - if they have the cap space, why not? Should they just waste cap space? Plus, they had McGinn making the same money to do that this past year.

Malkin gets less and Nich gets more.

As for term, I would say all of Letang Malkin and Nich get more

I would be surprised if a guy who has been in the league 7 years and had one good year gets that much of a raise - especially since that would have him making more than Rust. I would be pleasantly surprised if Malkin takes less. Either way, as long as the increase/decrease offsets, they can still field this roster. Could have Marchment as an alternative to Nichushkin as well.

As for term, I wasn't that concerned so you could be right - I just left it on the years that auto populated I think.