You save cap space by just buying RyJo out instead of taking that awful Kampf contract

Manson will be the first D traded; I'd say this offseason but if the Avs just try and plug holes up front with cheap guys they might be able to afford to keep him. They might have to trade Byram or Girard at some point but that won't happen for a while. I could quibble a bit with what you're paying some guys but this looks somewhat plausible minus taking on that terrible Kampf contract.

Yeah, by over $1M; that's a decent veteran 4th liner.

haha good grief you guys are acting like its james neals last deal, it's 2.4. I mean i don't watch toronto enough to know anything about kampf but i think treveling made it look worse by signing more centers and he got burried 4th line there. I'd bet he would be fine at 3C in our system and be able to play solid 2 way between wood and kovalenko who are not the first back in the play. 30 points for a 3rd line center for 2.4 playing solid 2 way hockey is a pretty good deal on a cap strapped team i think, but who knows i guess i don't watch toronto.

also i think it would be one of girard or byram over manson mostly because value wise they both hold more but the main point is all our prospects are basically girards and byrams. Even with manson sometimes throwing the puck away for no reason he's been very mobile this year and will bring the physical edge we all loved when we won the cup.

Kampff has 3 not one not two but THREE more years. In that time frame Mikko gets a new contract, Byram gets a new contract, LOC gets a new contract you get the point. RyJo has gotten progressively worse yes, but worst case scenario you buy him out he is a $2M cap hit the next 2 years. Better to rip that band aid off and be done with the pain of it instead of just prolonging the agony.

i mean that's missing the point. You're gonna have to pay someone to play 3C regardless. Odds are ritchie won't be ready for the responsibility in a year and a half from now. If kampf hits in this scenario 2.4 is a very good contract for 30 points and two way play. Right now we're paying colton 4mil for probily no more than 45 points and he's on term for the same amount. Is that a terrible contract as well? We're not going to be able to bring in someone for 1 mil off the market to play 3C or even 2nd line wing if you want to keep colton there. You'll either have to cough up probily more money to get someone to play those 2 positions or trade solid assets to get someone. I don't know if it will work, like i said before i don't really pay attention to toronto but 2.4 for solid 3C play is a good deal.

Yeah no. Colton is the 3C you have made that choice and Wood too, the rest of the guys in the bottom 6 have to be $1M it presents an interesting question of what do they do with LOC. if you bump Colton into the top 6 yeah you get some more money and the same with if you move a dman, but having guys making or having additional guys making over $2M in the bottom 6 is so less than ideal. And we haven’t even talked about the goal tending situation so yeah a $2.4M 4th line guy is something this team 100% can not afford.