The price for dumping Bobrovsky's contract is a franchise defenseman? Get real.

You call Ekblad a franchise defenseman????!?!?

He is a number one defenseman lol. Florida can just CBO Bobrovsky by themselves

I like how you talk that Florida even has the money to cbo Bob
You use real money to cbo not monopoly money

If the price to get rid of him is Ekblad, they'll find a way don't worry. You don't trade #1D in cap dumps.

With this Corona virus thing leafs are pretty much the only team that could afford to cbo Bob. Sorry didn't mean to make our team so good that you're getting worried that you can't beat us. Your really mad and just want Barkov so your saying this is bad.
Don't worry its either do this or just move to Quebec,

Barkov? What? Whatever, stick with your unrealistic trade. I wouldn't mind a team in Quebec city tho

All of this is a yikes

This is what everyone was saying last summer with the Aho offer sheet. "Oh the owner can't afford to pay Aho that much money." To which he just laughed and said "Honestly, I thought it was going to be a lot more." and matched immediately.

Besides the fact that it's a dumb idea to give up on Bobrovsky after a single sub-par season, if Florida really did need to buy out Bobrovsky for whatever reason, their owner could absolutely afford it.

LMFAO. Imagine thinking they can cbo him and cut 10mil in budget?!?!?!?!? You clearly know nothing you should just stick to the kings

Anyone who thinks Marner is overpaid just look at Washington's 9.2 million for the next 5 years to Backstrom.

Don’t act like the Canucks don’t have 5,5 millions for Toffoli.

Their not signing him. They said they are not instrested

Source??

god, talk about Toronto-centric.

Right, because you're on a first name basis with the owner of the Panthers and know exactly what's going on with his financials.

If Viola thought that he could improve the team by buying out Bobrovsky, he would do it. Nothing would make him more money that icing a successful hockey team, which is why he signed Bobrovsky to a big money contract in the first place. The guy is worth several billion dollars. $47.5 million is a drop in the bucket. However, it is premature to talk about buying out Bobrovsky. 2 or 3 consecutive seasons of poor play, maybe.

That FLA trade may get 'click-bait' but it's not realistic to me with the ink barely dry on Bob's contract.
Cheers

If necessary, the other rich, billionaire league owners will surely pony up/loan big $$$ to any other owners showing distress in the near term once things get going; knowing:

1) The STARBUCKS are gonna inject mega-money like sweet drugs to their pocket books real soon...

2) New TV and streaming deals are just around the corner. And given the worldwide hunger for sports content as seen w/ COVID, the price of those deals IMO has risen exponentially in just the last 2 or 3 mo...
* Exhibit A: ESPN owns primo-NBA rights and thus can exclusively show old Jordan Biographies to the masses. That has the other networks p*issin their diapers both literally and figuratively. Thus a new NHL deal is now worth more; all sports will command more money from networks going forward.

3) Gambling, gambling, gambling and more gambling.