we miss leo k
Rejoint: févr. 2018
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He's a very special kind of negative value - a player coming off a really unfortunate season (.888 SV%, 3.34 GAA, -9.6 GSAA in only 18 starts) with a somewhat significant cap hit ($3.8M) on a backloaded contract (he gets paid $4.2M & $4.4M the last 2 years of the contract).
You're going to have to pay to have someone take him off your hands - the trick is going to be finding a bad team, that needs a goalie, that isn't a floor team.
BAD TEAMS (for the sake of this, everyone who finished with a less than .500 points percentage):
Buffalo
Ottawa
Detroit
Montreal
Columbus
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Chicago
Arizona
San Jose
Anaheim
Seattle
From that list we can say the following teams will not be in the market for a goalie: Seattle (Grubauer & Driedger signed next year), Anaheim (Gibson), SJ (Reimer/Hill/Kahkonen), Columbus (Korpisalo/Merzlikins), Montreal (Price/Allen), Ottawa (Forsberg/Murray). We can knock off Arizona as a floor team that would want to avoid paying more cash than the cap hit, and we can most likely knock Detroit off because of lingering bad blood on both sides.
That leaves: Buffalo, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Chicago. New Jersey probably passes because they do have enough guys signed in the system, even if they were a goalie graveyard this season.
Buffalo could make sense if they want a seat warmer until one of the Portillo/Levi/UPL is ready to take over the starter's job, but I also feel like they'd make Toronto pay dearly for help.
Philadelphia needs someone to backup Carter Hart, but they don't really have a ton of cap space this summer ($5.1M) and I can't see them using 3/4 of them on a mediocre backup for Carter Hart.
Chicago is going nowhere, will have the cap space, doesn't have any goalie knocking down the door, and is probably a couple years from contending. I'd have Toronto send over a prospect list and pick someone that's 2-3 years away and have them send them with Mrazek for "future considerations".