Woah there are still FIVE years left on that contract?? Idk probably something Canucks should avoid

There's no big difference between Myers and Shea Weber right now, but the latter's contract is way easier to manage. Drouin-Pearson is basically a wash but I prefer Drouin's upside. Beagle for Lehkonen is a big downgrade.

I do like Lehkky, but I feel you'd need something for them to attempt to swallow that Weber contract, even if they think its likely he would retire early. In the end I think the Habs might have to choose between Armia and Lehkonen this off season, and I like Armia a bit better when he is going.

Armia is probably gone due to UFA and his contract will be more expensive than Lehky's. Weber's contract is also better than Myers'. Weber's is front-loaded, unlike Myers', and is certainly not playing through it due to age and injuries and when he retires, the penalty is on Nashville.

How does the cap recapture work if Weber retires

It affects the team on which the players played for during the years when the cap hit was lower than the real salary. In Weber's case, it's Nashville. For Carter, it'd be split between Columbus and LA

from what i can tell, Nashville would have to pay anywhere from 6-24M(6 if he retires in 2023, then 8, then 12, then 24) ... costing them more later he retires(assuming still before contract ends of course). they made a revision for contracts like this, and parise, suter, etc ... where they can now spread that cap hit out over a few years, i think the most per season they can be dinged is equal to his AAV, though.

4 years left on Myers deal inversely

The longer term and $ of the deals they receive is offset pretty well by Lehkonen being like 3x as good an asset as Beagle so... why not address that part

Noone wants to fully evaluate deals here

That's quite a solid and tactful deal all told

15M$ for 12M$ similar term all told

But Lehkonen sweetens it to be enticing for Van

Remind me - Why would Roussel, his 4 pts, his aging/injured frame & his bloated US$3M per, of all the Canucks available get exp-selected again.............??

Without an "add" by Jimmy B

fair enough they have some RFAs Seattle could go after... but experience is experience. t hey certainly not going to take eriksson or beagle... Lind, Jasek, or Hawrluk youre thinking, orr?

We both know Roussel is not the experienced leader type.

From Van it'll have to be a warm body yes - but a young one as you suggest above ^ ^ ^. If the Starbucks need to get to the Cap-floor then Van can unload an "anchor-ol-tired-man-contract" (and should most def)...but it'll cost some xtra-pick/prospect wrangling - 100%.

i never said leader :P but i get it

3 years

Does Van get faced with a recapture penalty if they acquire him tho? I know for Luongo both Florida and Vancouver were faced with a penalty

I think how it works is that as the contract goes along they track "net cap benefit"(NCB), which is basically the difference between the player's actual salary, and the cap hit. So any year that a team is paying the player more than what their cap hit is; NCB is accrued. If they pay less than the cap hit, the total NCB starts to reduce.

Basically since the end of the 17-18 season, Weber has been getting paid 6M, which is ~1.8M less than his cap hit. His first year in montreal, though he made 12M, so NCB for MTL was around 4M after that season. After this season the NCB for Montreal, or any other team who acquired him, will be negative, and therefore no penalty for anyone but Nashville.

For Luongo, the first year that Florida acquired him they paid 6.7M and his cap hit was 4.5M due to some being retained by the nucks. so first year they gained 2.2M NCB, but second year he only got paid 3.4M, with a cap hit of 4.5M... so the NCB dropped 1.1M from that 2.2M mark. then he retired.