Fast forward to 2019...$37.5M payroll available ($40M if cap goes to $82M) to sign Seguin ($10M), Karlsson ($10M), Patches ($6M?), Nelson ($5M?), and 5 more players (2 forwards & 3 defense including RFA Lindell, Methot?, Benn?). Possible, but not realistic.

Jim Nill already said no on Heiskanen for Karlsson, And Jason Spezza wont waive for any Canadien team. Especially Montreal.

Hey, buddy, you remember the other day we got into a discussion about Spezza? I went looking online for a quote or anything to back that statement up. There was nothing there I could find less than 4 years oldCan you provide something more recent?

I dont see Karlsson taking less than what Drew Doughty got.

awesome dallas losses their top 2 d prospects.

This is really well done. If Spezza can be flipped at the deadline by MTL it may work out. Could be tough to fit it all under the cap tho. Benn (9.5) Seguin (10) Karlsson (10.5) Pacioretty (7) Radulov (6.25) plus the raises that Lindell and Faksa will need. It could work though

but who has the cap to pay karlsson 11m, especially a team that karlsson might find acceptable to play for seven years?

at 9.5m in Texas, EK would be making MORE money after taxes than doughty at 11m in california.