Quoting: Ritzy
Okay.
Currently sitting at 1.64M in cap space.
MIN is taking on 1.675M in this deal. Use either the goalie in this trade as your backup or find a vet goalie unsigned for league min. Roughly 30K over the cap.
Faber goes down, temporarily. Get Addison signed, Rossi can go down (again temporarily). Accrue cap space. Call back up.
Seems like it can be done.
No it doesn't. Use your head.
1) Karlsson contract runs for FOUR more years.
That's four more years where BOTH Faber and Addison are blocked from being played to their potential in Minnesota's top 4. There is hardly anything
temporary about that. Christ, Faber ALONE, is expected to play and take over Dumba's spot in the top 4 THIS coming season. Do you seriously expect Minnesota to wait 4 more years before playing him there? Let alone 2-3 years.
Karlsson is NOT, nor ever will be, a fit because of that.
2) Defenseman are the 2nd least needed position on Minnesota's current roster after goaltending.
They already have the young defensive talent who are already NHL ready, Faber and Addison... possibly Hunt, and all are either on ELC's or don't/won't break the bank. A retained Karlsson will STILL cost over $6M, because no team is going to retain that much for that long. That is not a economically feasible strategy.
Furthermore, Minnesota's defensive prospect pool is STACKED, it's among the best in the league. Blocking that pool isn't wise or advisable. I haven't a doubt it'll be used to acquire top-end talent, in time, but that time isn't now. Or will be used for positions the team doesn't need.
3) Moving Fleury is just creating a hole on the roster where there isn't one. And that's without considering his NMC. Which he would be required to waive. Something he's well on record in saying he's not willing to do, as he's tired of moving around.
He wants to break Roy's winning record and slide into 2nd place on the all-time list before he retires. He only needs 8 wins to do that. After that he'll be content to retire, which is the expectation after this season. In the meantime, he's more than comfortable being the backup behind Gustavsson.
So your idea and this trade as stated above is DOA.
4) The cap hurdles required to get this trade to work as posted above are worse then the ones that Guerin would of had to do to try and keep Fiala. Guerin already said F that and chose to keep the teams depth intact over keeping one player back then, what makes you so certain he'll change his mind for a player he'd have to acquire and isn't even a need?