If you trade Bernier, you accrue cap space throughout the year.
Johnson costs you over $2mm in cap space while in the AHL.

And McDavid more than Wilson too, right?

my man how many top 6 wingers in the league have ONE 0.5 ppg season lmao

My man had one season of not being a 4th liner.

If the cost to accrue deadline cap space is going to be a 1st rounder, I'd just deal with LTIR - and for what it's worth, they're currently using about $3.8M of the $4.125 LTIR space, so if they trade Bernier, they lose that - which means, after dumping Johnsson's contract they *still* need to find about $1.5M to clear. Mayyyybe they get back under by running a 20 man roster for a bit, and then if you assume Schmid and one of Holtz/Zetterlund/other forward under $1M goes down when Palat & Blackwood come back, they'll have like $100K under the cap - which isn't really going to amount to much of anything at the deadline. At this point, moving Bernier off LTIR is going to cause a headache more than anything else - his contract (and Johnsson's) are gone after this year, so it's just as easy for them to hang on to them. And you know what? If they're still stuck on Josh Anderson this summer, they'll have the cap space to add him on to their roster without having to jump through these extra hoops to make it happen!

what's the picture mr. sauce i cannot see it

Imgur link of his WAR career timeline. How do I upload pictures to this hellsite?!

i've given up on learning that.
i just tweet the picture i'd normally upload and link the tweet on here lmao

private twitter account sad (

Imgbb.com and then copy the link

No, he's not. He's 28 years old, which means he's almost certainly past his physical prime (his game isn't exactly cerebral) and hasn't played 70 games in a season since 2018-19. He's only scored 20 goals in a season once, and has never scored 50 points. Some quality top-6 forward. And, worst of all, he's signed for another 4 years at $5.5M.