Lol Tampa Declines. They are trying to shed cap, Erikson will not help them

I need more of an explanation on your idea for the Tampa trade because it completely baffles me how it’s supposed to help the Bolts at all.

How does this help them shed cap for the upcoming season?

None of that gets a 3rd from Ottawa. DiPietro is fine, but Ottawa is fully clogged up in the goalie pipeline. It's always nice to have more shots with goalies, but it's not worth the cost of blocking young players NHL roster spots next year.

5 more years of TJ vs 2 years of LE. In the end its 25 million vs 12 million in salary. I know its a ****e deal, but better than giving up a 1st to get rid of TJ no?

It could be a 7th, or a bag of pucks, or futures that never get paid out. Cap relief and everyone else in deal has only 1 year left on their deals. Plus they are better than much of what OTT can play.

What about 1 year of Sutter or Beagle instead?

But my point is that Ottawa needs the roster spots for this one year more than they would need DiPietro going forward. It's a wasted season anyway in the sense that they're not going to be good, so why would they waste it further by playing Sven Baertschi instead of finding out what you have in a prospect like Rudolfs Balcers or Filip Chlapik ahead of the Seattle expansion draft. Also I don't think either player is better than the players can fill internally, there may be an argument they're better than the Zaitsevs or the Watsons, but they aren't pushing those guys out of a spot to begin with.

For what its worth... they may not even play a season because of Covid… but yes, I totally see your point. Just trying to creatively dump cap space on your team.

OTT rejects in a heartbeat.