I may be off on the Sharks trade in that they may not need an LD.

It really depends on how thrun is viewed and if Shakir is ready. I'm assuming vlasic is basically a LTIR at this point.

Thrun is probably a full time NHLer at this point, a bottom 4 kind of guy. Shakir spent most of last year in the AHL, but I would be surprised if he wasn't a full time NHLer next year. Add Ferarro and some combination of Vlasic/Rutta/Burroughs, the Sharks are pretty full on LD at the moment.

They would definitely be open to moving Sturm, but at this point they are going to want to get back a top 4 LD prospect or a middle 6 winger. They aren't going to be very interestiedin moving their 2024 1st/2nd rounders, either.

Yeah I was definitely thinking "yeah this seems a bit unrealistic" as I clicked submit.

Are Burroughs and Rutta not RHD?

Burroughs is not an NHL-caliber player. I suppose he's a serviceable 8/9 type (and contending teams need those players). Rutta is a #6 guy at best.

Yeah I also didn't think they were meaningful parts of an NHL teams future. Same with Vlasic at this point

Is Ferraro on the trade market or is he a long term piece for SJS?

If not you'd have Ferraro, Shakir, Bahl, Thrun and would be decently set at LD. Would still need RD. How is thrun viewed?

Half of the 2024-25 bonus figure will be unlikely to attain...Luke and Nemec will get their max schedule A's...that's $1.85m. Maybe we get to $2.1m

2.1 and then you buy a guy 50% retained at the deadline and pay like 500k in real salary using accrued space and have no carryover. And also with injuries eating up space. Like this year we started with 2 mill in space. And still ended up with 1.5 mill in carryover.

Or if you want, use the cap to buy more term on Mercer

You forgot the s