Might make it tough to keep Landy, but yeah, that's a solid back end.

If he wants $8M AAV you can find it with Calvert's $2,850,000 off the books. But if I'm Sakic I want to keep both of those wingers

You just wait for :
Chabot-Drysdale
Brannstrom-Bernard Docker
Wolanin-Thomson

How are you gonna pay Makar?

its a nice idea but it won't work beyond this year. you'd have to gut the depth to do it.

But is that gonna be better than

Byram-Pietrangelo
Graves-Makar
Girard-Johnson

Both are unreal though

Kaut doesnt play centre but compher does.. do you think anyone pays pieterangelo that much?.. flat cap for 2 years possibly how many teams can afford that going forward without shipping out half of their team?

I dont think you can fit Pietrangelo here and have 11 mill on the 3rd pairing

Nah YOU just wait for:
Dahlin-Joki
Samuelsson-Risto
Johnson-Laaksonen

Thats not better honestly. My lineup has 5 1st round picks, yours has 4 but 1 is at least meh

Dahlin >> Chabot
Drysdale > Joki
Brannstrom >> Risto
Samuelson = JBD
Johnson > Wolanin
Thomson >> Laaksonen

It's pretty close. Biggest difference imo is the better transition game of Ottawa and the physicality of Buffalo

Honestly i really like JBD, see him as a Pesce with more offence. Honestly Dahlin > Chabot is being biased.

You're giving Pietrangelo $9.25 million with a flat cap both Landy and Makar combined will eat around $17m to $18m good luck with that.

Hughes Woo
Rathbone Myers
Juolevi Rafferty

Best my Canucks can look forward to. Not shabby.

In the description: Obviously with Makar they don't need to make this signing but it's cool to think how dominant that group could be

They can pay makar 9 landy 8 and grubi 5 next season with a flat cap and can spend up to 7m on a ufa this offseason. Anymore then they would have to do more roster moves. But it’s not an issue to spend 7-8m and keep all their guys

They can do it, it’s not smart but they can do it. Just means they are going to move out prob both compher and donskoi and really gamble on a young bottom 6 on cheap deals in jost Newhook bowers kaut and nuke

I think if Colorado wants Pietrangelo then Johnson needs to go. Not sure how that happens though.

As much as I hope for the fans of Ottawa that the Sens pick Drysdale, I can't help but laugh when I think about Ottawa blowing this draft.

aint happening. How would they blow it by taking one of Stutzle or Byfield, then one of Raymond, Drysdale, Perfetti, Holtz, Rossi and one of Jarvis, Mercer, Quinn, Holloway etc

If Melnyk is involved there's always a chance

Zadorov, Bellemare, and Calvert off the books (and replaced by Byram/Bowers/O'Connor opens up $5.5m. One of Compher/Donskoi selected by Seattle and replaced by Newhook saves a further $2.5m-3m, the other one gets traded and replaced by a cheaper forward saves another $2m+. That's already $10m that should be enough to resign Makar and Grubauer. Then Timmins could replace Graves (traded) to save enough to pay Grubauer (or we find a way to get a cheaper netminder). Alternatively we simply trade Johnson and replace him with Timmins and that probably solves quite a lot of our squeeze by itself.

Obviously that would entail gutting a bit of the roster depth and leaning heavily on our ELC's (Byram, Newhook, Timmins, Bowers, etc), but it's certainly doable. Especially if we squeeze Burakovsky, Nichuskin, and Graves a bit which I think would be possible given the flat cap.

2021/22:

Landeskog ----- Mackinnon ------ Rantanen
Burakovsky -------- Kadri ---------- Kaut
Jost ----------------- Newhook ------ Nichuskin
O'Connor --------- Bowers -------- Cheap 4th liner (eg. Bellemare on $750k 35+ contract)

Byram ----- Makar
Girard ----- Pietrangelo
$1m 6D --- Johnson

Grubauer
Francouz


Keep in mind that we have a very deep prospect pool, as well as all of our 1st round picks left. We would also potentially trade some of the depth pieces I mentioned above (eg. Compher/Donskoi/Zadorov/Graves). And with those assets it's likely that we could acquire some good cheap talent to fill out the roster, much like Tampa has done recently.