That escalated quickly.
Where can the Caps clear a million dollars of salary cap overage without trading the guys they just signed? I mean.... if they get through all of training camp without an injury, they can trade Gudas, Stephenson, or Djoos? They can waive Leipsic.
Does that mean they need to trade Nick Backstrom?
Quoting: Billy739
if Plekanec at 33 got us a 2nd round pick we used to draft a great bottom 6 power forward in Jacob Olofsson and the piece we used to acquire Brett Kulak ....
Backstrom has to go just like Plekanec had to go
^best of CapFriendly?
If Thornton, Crosby, the Sedins, Malkin, Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Doan, Kopitar, Giroux, Toews, or Stamkos get traded, let us know. Backstrom already has 200 more points than Plekanec or Saku Koivu, and is still in his prime. He's not a faceoff specialist. He's a #1 center. Montreal hasn't had a player that compared with Nick Backstrom since Henri Richard.
http://www.nhl.com/stats/player?aggregate=1&reportType=season&seasonFrom=20002001&seasonTo=20172018&gameType=2&filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&sort=points,goals,assists
Is there a trade for a guy like that? Sure... Gretzky got traded for Jimmy Carson, a lesser #1 center who was briefly producing almost on the same level as him, was ten years younger, and logically should have gone on to outscore him over the next five years, once he played with better wings on a stacked team like the Oilers. People say it was about the money, and maybe that was a big part of it, but that's also not an issue in Washington.
Jankowski and a first lands Eller, not Backstrom.