Math and Sports
Rejoint: mai 2018
Messages: 650
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The Jets are most certainly not in cap hell now or next year.... but we do need to move 2 guys (which you've done) or 3 guys if you want to resign Statsny. And if we do resign Statsny it should be for one year. I think Roslovic is ready for top 6 duty, but even if you disagree with that, anything more than a year of development in a nice cozy sheltered 3rd line is overkill; the trajectory of him compared to a young Claude Giroux is uncannily similar.
The only problem with your team besides the fact you signed Connor Hellebuyck to a 2 year extension after he's already been bridged is that our bonuses plus Vesa's bonus which isn't included outweighs our cap space which means we'll have to pay it while we're trying to resign Connor, Laine, and Wheels. Trading one of Myers or Kulikov alleviates those problems, and lets you give Helle the money he deserves and the term we need.
I love Myers, but the bottom line is he is a 3rd pairing dman. Only by virtue of the fact he plays on a team with a 24 year old star and the incredible hulk of the NHL. If you pay Trouba in the neighborhood of 6mill, and Buff is making 7.6mill then you have to give each one enough minutes to make those contracts worth it. There's only 60 minutes in an NHL game and that means Myers is not earning his 5.5mill. Poolman looked fine in his games last year and should play enough minutes at a quality worthy of a million dollars (or more since his advanced stats suggest he is worth closer to 2mill).