Quoting: coga16
Using someone else project method, not your own so lazy....and the point of this all uou dont include MacKinnon....you have 66m in 10 players and you want to add 10m in Marner, plus you need to ensure you have space for mega deal for Mackinnon. You still need to fill out 12 roster spots and you would have easily burned 76m in 11 players. Plus yous till have MackInnon, Donskoi, Kadri and Johnson contracts to comprehend bc they are still on the books 3 years from now. Combined they are over 20m in cap space. Awesome you have 96m conmitted and have 15 guys under contract 2 years from now and need to sign 8 more. I didnt know the cap was going to be well over a 100m by then.
Congrats you just sank the Colorado Avalanche bc you mismanged the cap buy adding Marner
Gave my opinions on pretty much every signing. I think you're seemingly forgetting that in the NHL nowadays teams are uber reliant on cheap, young depth players. Colorado has prospects that can come up and make the jump to be cheaper replacement options.
Take out Zadorov and insert Byram. Timmins also could potentially be an option in 2-3 years.
Insert Kaut/Bowers into the 3rd/4th lines maybe even up.
They'd all be making less than 925k.
Is Bura gonna get 7.6M? NO.
Is Girard gonna get 5M out of his ELC? No.
Zadorov a fringe top4, better suited for a shutdown bottom pair guy gonna get 6M? No.
Jost? Getting 7.6M in 2-3 years? No.
Kamenev getting 2.3M? More realistic than the other options, still, probably not.
Landy getting 10? I'd cringe, might happen, shouldn't.
Rantanen probably will get less than 11.
Mackinnon deserves 12.5, maybe he might fetch more. I'd like to think he's follow his hometown/childhood idol Sid and take less to field a better team. who knows.
Makar, I'd be willing to be he gets less than 7.5 due to the fact he's not as complete as a Dman than McAvoy, but who knows. 7.5M for LONG term would work, other than that a bridge deal 5-6M more likely imo.
With the savings there, they'd be fine. I exaggerated all of those contracts except maybe Rantanen and Mackinnon
Also, Johnson, Kadri and Donskoi could easily be traded that far into their respective contracts to make cap room