Quoting: Amakoue
Huh? I mean the surgeon and foligno talk aren't realistic . Jason Zucker was traded to make room in top 4 for kaprizov. Who are you trading
Kaprizov, Zuccarello.
Kevin fiala, matt boldy
Marcus foligno, Jordan greenway
Ryan Hartman, connor dewar or nick bjustad, or Kyle Rau, Brandon Duhaime
It's a $68m cap world for MN and the team has lots of not good contracts. Older players making too much money need to go to make it the cap work and be competitive. Zucc isn't worth $6m/yr, Spurgeon isn't worth $7.5m/yr.
Year 3 of the buyout pain MN has 6 players (Spurgeon, Brodin, Zucc, JEE, Foligno, and Hartman) signed and $44m ($38m is GMBG's doing) of it's (flat) cap space used. Of those 6 players only 2 (JEE and Brodin) are core pieces you can build around. 1 (Hartman) is a fairly paid bottom-6er. 1 (Foligno) is a guy a Playoff team adds at the TDL looking for grit. The other 2 are overpayed mid 30s players.
The choice is either keep the older players on bad contracts and cost the team prime age players (Fiala, Greenway, and Kaprizov); or dump the older players and keep the prime age ones.