Équipe: 2023-24 Canucks de Vancouver

Date de création initiale: 4 sept. 2022

Publié: 4 sept. 2022

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Let's say Horvat signs for around market value at 7X7, how is this team going to fill out their roster next season? Let's say the team wants to resign Kuzmeko for market value for a decent 3rd liner (assuming he ends up as a 3rd liner), and resigns Schenn for a bargain 800k assuming he doesn't regress below a bottom pair defenseman. With this roster the team is nearly 5M over the cap (Poolman may not play again but this is still a year away so he has lots of time to recover so he is included).
The team still needs to add an additional 4 players to the roster and is running the same RD as this season and last (getting older), which is a major achilles heal. Unless the salary cap goes up significantly next season I expect it will continue to be costly to move bottom six forwards making average money. So if the Canucks want to move players like Pearson and or Dickinson it won’t be cheap and frankly they don't have the assets to add if they want to try and build to be competitive now. Lastly, let’s say they do move Pearson and Dickinson, that creates 5.9M in cap space but they would now need to sign 6 players to fill out their roster and only have approximately 1.2M to do it. Lastly, EP and VP are due the next season, and I would expect they will all get substantial raises. Going to be really interesting to see how they try and navigate this cap crunch next season…