Quoting: PleaseBanMeForMyOwnGood
And how do you propose to fill out the roster the next year? Makar needs a deal and you currently have 23 million with only 14 players on the roster. Makar will take up at least 6+ million of that. That's 17 million for a lot of players you'll need.
That would be no problem whatsoever.
Makar needs an $8m raise to $9m.
Landeskog to $8m, a raise of $2.5m.
Grubauer to $5m, a raise of $1.7m.
Total of the raises above = $13.2m
- Current capspace: $1.7m
- Cole $4.25m ---> replaced by Samberg ELC. Saves $3.5m.
- Smith $2.35m --> replaced by Carlsson $800k. Saves $1.5m.
- Calvert $2.85m --> replaced by Bowers ELC. Saves $2m.
- Bellemare $1.8m --> replaced by Andersson/Rasmussen ELC. Saves $1m.
- Donskoi ($3.9m) selected by Seattle --> replaced by Newhook ELC. Saves $3m.
- Graves ($2.75m) traded for futures ---> replaced by Timmins (~$1.2m). Saves $1.5m.
- Komarov ($3m / $2m buried) ---> attach a modest pick to him and save $2m (much cheaper to move him with just 1 year remaining on his contract)
That's $16.2m, which leaves $3m extra capspace compared to the $13.2m raises above. And that doesn't even include a potential increase in the cap ceiling due to the ED and new TV deal.
Those changes would allow us to run with the roster below for 2021/22. It's admittedly quite a young roster, but there's A LOT of talent there, and also plenty of veteran leadership sprinkled throughout the lineup.
Quoting: Richard88
Roster for 2021/22:
- Donskoi selected by Seattle in ED.
- Graves traded for futures.
Landeskog ---- Mackinnon ---- Rantanen
Burakovsky ------- Kadri --------- Kaut
Nichuskin ------- Newhook ----- Compher
Bowers --------- Andersson ---- Namestnikov (Rasmussen marinades in the AHL one more year in 2021/22 and then replaces Kadri in 2022 as Newhook bumps up to 2C).
O'Connor
Byram ------ Makar
Girard ------- Johnson
Samberg --- Timmins
Carlson 7D (Wilde slow-cooks in the AHL until Johnson is done).
Grubauer
Francouz