Quoting: TrueCanuck
Congrats on ruining the top 6 completely and guaranteeing that Matthews will walk to free agency. If that was your goal, you've succeeded!
Quoting: coga16
You realize the salary cap exists for other teams right?
Quoting: MadLin27
Yeah. Colorado can make this move easily (from a cap perspective)
Quoting: mv21227
You know after this season Kadri, Burakovsky, and Nichushkin are UFAs, MacKinnon and Byram expire after next season, and they need to sign a goalie for next season right? Adding Marner significantly decreases their chances to do any of these. Avs decline for that reason
Quoting: UpsideDownQue
If this trade happened then the only guys the Avs would have under contract for 23-24 is Landeskog, Rantanen, Marner, O'Connor, Toews, and Makar - with about 42M in space for everyone else (assuming cap of 83.5M by then). Its definitely possible, but they would have to choose between MacKinnon and depth. With Mack at 12M and Byram at 6M that leaves them with 24M in space and 8 guys under contract, which isnt ideal but it is doable
I agree with you 100%. Im just saying purely theoretically they could do it but would have to sacrifice pretty much all of their depth
Quoting: justaBoss
Well the return for Marner is relatively meh. Nor could COL afford if we take into consideration the contracts they need to re-sign in the near future (MacKinnon, Burakovsky, Kadri, a goalie). Avs just don't need Marner to the point they'd pay $11M for him annually, they're already the top team offensively. Plus the likes of Girard, while good, are simply not a need for the Leafs. They need more defensive assets to their blueline.
Buying out Ritchie would come cheaper for TOR than retaining him.
Overall imo the team is weaker than it currently is.
Quoting: DirtyDangle
marner is just too expensive, avs cant build out the rest of the team. besides they need that cap for campbell.
Quoting: CMcAvoy73
Seems like Colorado is getting the short end of the stick here.
Colorado is easily getting the better players here (unless Newhook becomes a top line player) but obviously it makes things a lot harder for them salary wise. At the end of the day, both teams say no. To me, the best places to potentially send (emphasis on potentially as there about a 98% chance he's no going anywhere) Marner are Nashville, Anaheim, NJ, Ottawa, Buffalo, Detroit or Arizona.