What I'd do is give that money to Ovechkin, but with only one year term. He'd need to show he's worth such money.

Bruins fan - Please do.

Ovechkin would cost 12 mill for 3-5 years

Calgary should look elsewhere for a 2C imo. Nuge for example. Monahan - Kuzy would be too lazy / defensively inept to really shine

How could one say something so controversial....yet so brave

He only will sign with Washington tho. He said it's Washington or no NHL

Some good moves. Next, after the expansion draft, sign Ovechkin at 1x8M. Can replace Sheary or Virtanen. Either way. Unless you think they're better than him? In which case I'd love to hear why, but not really. e.t.a. The next year, they could sign Ovechkin at 1x8M again if he wants, and so forth. The over 36 penalties are serious.



He can test the market and see if that is out there. That frees up an expansion protection slot for WSH. If Ovechkin gets 12Mx5, I'm sure whatever team signs him will be happy with what they get, and Caps fans will wish them the best.

Maybe. But if they each get another 80 point season next year, who cares?

A GM trying to win in the playoffs would care

Exactly. http://www.nhl.com/stats/skaters?reportType=game&seasonFrom=20172018&seasonTo=20172018&dateFromSeason&gameType=3&filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&sort=points,goals,assists&page=0&pageSize=100

Don't understand the VAN trade for WSH,

hes already showing signs of slowing down

yeah ... idk why he wants to take the capitals to the bank at his age

look at Kuzys CF% FF% and xGF%..... ill come back. He's killing it this year

RNH only gets 80 points on the WING of McDavid lol....hes basically a winger now. Kuzy "lazy defense" but his CF% FF% and xGF% are better than RNH while also playing in way better division

Kuzy is a playoffs hero? you watch him play at all you seem all about terrible takes and generic narratives

Capitals have way too many LHD

Naturally. He's a 36 year old.

Also, I think SLE has many better options than Hagelin+2nd to take from WSH.

Offensively

very possible but my point is that we can dump Hags for a price. It all depends how the management in SLE values him. if we are lucky the will take Jensen or Schultz.... maybe Dillon

What are RNH numbers in the playoffs? last i checked Oilers lost to the the Hawks.... Kuzy is a better center than RNH and he's going to cost way less at the end of the day

...and Van only has two D they need to protect, so they get more value out of having Siegenthaler this summer than WSH would, whereas each team has a bunch of decent forwards. Great idea.

I think this is going to depend on what Ovi wants. Does he want money, or does he want a chance to win another Cup? $12.5M for him would cost immense roster shakeup, and wouldn't necessarily be better. You're basically taking out either a key defensive player, or another key forward to pay for his salary increase.

I like the idea of giving him year to year contracts, but I know he and Backstrom floated the idea of Backstrom signing a 5 year extension (which he did), and Ovechkin signing a 4 year extension so they can retire at the same time. A four year deal with a cap hit of $9.5 to 10.5 is doable. 12.5 really isn't.

Ted's a nice guy. I remember when he was paying Bondra, like, 5M, and Bondra left as a free agent, and made $1M the next year. I don't think you can reasonably expect Ovechkin to play like $9M for the next four years, but he's a marketable star and loyalty to a team's best player ever is certainly a good look. It means Vrana gets another bridge deal, and even then, under a flat cap Vrana's raise has to come from shipping someone out.

Here's my concern on the Ovi negotiations.
Backy signed for 5 years and got a nice raise. He got this nice raise because he was very, very underpaid at 6.7 for the length of that long deal.
Ovi situation is different. He has been one of the highest paid players these 13 years. He should not get any where near the bump Backy got because their situations are completely different. If Ovi is expecting this same type of scenario, he is mistaken.