Pretty nice future

timmins ahead of kaut

Newhook is ahead of Byram

all the avs need is one more top 6 winger. everything else is there or going to be there

I think Annunen could make the list but its hard to judge goalies vs skaters. I would put them in tiers

Tier 1:
Newhook
Byram

Tier 2:
Kaut
Timmins
Bowers
Annunen

question for avs fans. If there is a CBO do the avs take a garbage contract to buy out for a sweetener? They really dont have a terrible contract.

most likely not. depends on the cbo works. i could see them use it on johnson if they can still use it next year.

I would certainly hope so.

Johnson's contract is about $2m too high, but it's not really a CBO-worthy contract as he's still contributing by playing 20+ mins per night with heavy defensive minutes. We also have the capspace to accomodate him until his contract runs out

If there are CBO's I would hope that Sakic would explore acquiring one of Ladd/Boychuk from NYI, or Staal/Smith/Lundqvist from NYR, in addition to a decent prospect and/or pick.

Btw, here's an AGM I did a couple of weeks ago featuring a Boychuk trade/CBO: https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/1740618

From Colorado's perspective though I think deally there won't be a CBO at all, because a lot of other teams stand to benefit more than Colorado, and it would to an extent remove some of the advantage Colorado has via trades/UFA by having more capspace than most teams.

Should there be a CBO though, another idea would be to have a luxury cap/tax scheme, whereby any team that doesn't use a CBO gets to nominate one player who's caphit doesn't count against the cap for 1 season. That would essentially mean that we could nominate Rantanen's $9.3m as a luxury caphit, and effectively add a $10m player for one year.

Yeah if they can use the CBO for one calendar year all the way until just before the Expansion Draft then I think that might be an option. This offseason would be at least a year too early though.