Quoting: IDKtbh
Thanks for the detailed comment. I wouldn’t trade for Lindholm unless it came with an extension, I probably should have included that in the post.
Money wouldn’t be an issue with these trades since we’d have around $35m the following offseason to sign Seider, Raymond, Berggren, Rasmussen & Lindholm. I have those 5 players projected to cost around $32m combined. And after that season we’d have roughly $15m in open cap space to sign the next wave of young pups.
Btw, I’d happily add to all the trades to make them work. Those 3 are between 25-28 and turn us into a bonafide playoff/Stanley cup contender for the next 7-8 years.
I’m curious as to why you don’t like Addison tho.
Next season would be alright since we have alot of cap space but it's the season after. Just looking at next season, with your team there is 36M in cap. I agree around 32M for those guys. Then fill the roster with ELC and we have basically no cap space left. Not awful by any means but the season after.
If we only had 15M in cap we would be effed. The long term outlook for your team says we would have about 20M with a 92M salary cap. I don't see it getting that high that quick but never know. Just looking at who needs new deals. Konecny probably gets 8M. Kasper and Edvinsson could very easily break out and it would be ideal to get them signed long term, more so Edvinsson. Husso will need a new contract or else we will need to find a goalie, Cossa isn't going to be ready after one AHL season. I figure you are at around 72M with only 12 players signed. No goalies and still needing to sign high end young players plus fill the roster. It's just too much. What will end up happening is guys like Konecny would walk, then those assets are wasted. Don't have too many other young high end guys to replace him. If they could be somehow convinced to all take sweetheart deals then maybe the money could work but all those guys have been underpaid for what they have done and will be looking for a pay day.
Now if we scratched a couple of those trades, Terry cause he's not being traded and Lindholm cause we shouldn't trade that pick, then we would have a couple more young high end young players on ELCs that could be plugged into the line up.
As for Addison, be he seems like an offence driven defenceman and I'm not a fan of them unless they are elite, then usually they can play a two way game. I don't hate the idea of an offensive defenceman but I prefer guys that play defense first and then let the offense come after.