Modifié 3 juill. 2020 à 17 h 22
Quoting: csick
I dont think you can fit Pietrangelo here and have 11 mill on the 3rd pairing
Quoting: DirtyDangle
its a nice idea but it won't work beyond this year. you'd have to gut the depth to do it.
Quoting: TheAlien
How are you gonna pay Makar?
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.