You know there are guys like Luke Hughes, Owen Power, JJ Peterka, Wyatt Johnston, Matt Berniers, Mason McTavish, Quinton Byfield.

Ch. Tanev at 1,25m cap hit, after all retention is also great option.

Yeah, but Retention and ELCs are for nerds. I like how this team is set up.

Caufield - Draisital - Reinhart would be a generational goal scoring line, as I could easily see 2 of 3 breaking 40 goals.

Fiala - Malkin - Kane fall into the same category too.

JEEK - Bedard - Toffoli could easily function as either a grit or finesse line, diversifying options.

Dewey - Dowd - Duchene has the potential to be a game breaking fourth line.

The defense is rock solid top to bottom with three Real Solid goalies, I think this team cruises to a cup.

No Hyman is a huge miss. Changing Caufield for Hyman saves over $2M.

Evan Bouchard provides the same offense from the back end as Josi for ~$6M less.

Those two changes allows you to switch Toffoli for Kucherov.

Yeah, this is nowhere near optimized.

Sure you are. *slow clap*

But when you call it "Best Cap Compliant Team" you open yourself up to scrutiny. I mean there's probably fewer than 1 in 50 hockey fans who would choose Josi over Makar, Hughes or Hedman when spending $9M+ on a defenseman.

It's certainly uniquely yours, but that in itself doesn't make it the best.

Toffoli, Duchene, Bedard, Mitchyukov, Faber - all retention or ELC...