Quoting: Crazy_Blazer
A lot of what you are all saying makes sense. The only thing I am not sure of is someone said Ottawa doesn't need help getting to the cap floor. Is that correct? Yes Baertshi has no real trade value and yes it would be ideal to shed Erickson but the Canucks need help on D and every dollar could help. Is the consensus that Tryamkin has little value?
Matt Murray's $6,25MM contract bumped the cap up quite a bit, plus add in the arbitration cases of;
Chris Tierney $2.975 QO, in arbitration, should get around $3.5MM
Connor Brown $1.6MM QO, in arbitration, should get around $2.75MM
Then add in the
Gaborik/Phaneuf/Ryan cap hit of $9.8125MM
The cap hit looks low now only because the team has six RFA forwards that they extended QO to, and need to sign their contracts, which includes Tierney and Brown mentioned above.
I have them at 20 of the max 23 players, and a cap of $61,862,499, the floor is $60.2MM.
All players are either signed, are an RFA with a QO, or Ottawa has their rights (Stutzle)