Quoting: KennyHolland
what is this? You screw the team for every year after this year. How do the Oil extend Nurse, JP etc. They are in cap hell with no futures with this.
Let next year worry about next year.
But it's not as dire as you make it out to be.
- Koskinen ($4.5M) and Turris ($.525M) are gone next year and replaced with Konovalov ($.842M): $4.183M savings
- Gologoski ($2M) and Russell ($1.25M) are gone next year and replaced with Broberg ($.863M) and Samorukov ($.825M): $1.562M savings
That's $5.745M, here are my projections for the 4 key free agents:
Nurse: $7M (+$1.4M) on an 8-year deal to be signed prior to the Makar signing
McLeod: $1.35M (+$.516M) on a 2 year deal if he plays well (I don't think he'll have nearly as much value as Bear or Yamamoto)
Puljujarvi: $4M (+$2.825M) on a 5 year deal - play dependent, but I don't think he's worth as much as Nuge
Bear: $3M (+$1M) at most - if he's 3rd on the RHD depth chart as I expect he will be, he's a trade candidate
That's $5.741M. It fits, but just barely.
In any case my point was that Sakic is very likely to match, meaning the team then has $12M to go after Landeskog or Grubauer as Sakic won't have enough cap space to give both guys FMV.