Quoting: MONSTER1974
I’d do Edmundson & Dvorak for Mittelstadt...Montreal can’t take Mittelstadt and keep Dvorak.
Quoting: TMLBRIAN
I would personally steer clear from that trade if I were Buffalo...
Quoting: Tjm220
... Paying your third line center $4.5 million a year could definitely become a problem...
Great point and counter points, excellent conversations.
Next year, Bishop and Anderson come off the cap $6,500,000 reduction.
Hinnostroza $1,700,000, Girgensons $2,200,000 and Okposo $6,000,000 are UFA's and it is most likely their combined $10,000,000 will be reduced to less than $5,000,000 next year, another $5,000,000 reduction.
Clague $750,000, and Jost $2,000,000 are RFA's and Buffalo may sign both of them for nearly the same cap hit.
Samuelsson, Cozens and Thompson Cap of $3,300,000 will jump to $18,000,000
If my math is correct Buffalo's cap will increase by $7,000,000 to $72,000,000 next year with the over all cap rising to $83,500,000
The following year:
Olofsson's $4,750,000 (hard to believe he has the same AVV as Tuch) will be gone replace by an ELC a $3,800,000 reduction.
Krebs, Lyubushkin, Dahlin, Jokiharju, Stillman, and Power $863,333; $2,750,000; $6,000,000; $2,500,000 $1,350,000 and $916,000
$14,500,000 will become $2,200,000; $3,000,000; $9,500,000; $3,000,000; $1,500,000; and $7,500,000
$27,000,000
Presuming both Edmundson and Dvorak for Mittelstadt, Buffalo adds $5,500,000 cap, as much as I would like to have a third line center who can win face offs, I do not see how Buffalo could fit him under the cap unless one could predict the cap to rise significantly by then.