I am just hoping for a couple of little trades for dmen. Figured that I would vent it here...
Winnipeg is looking for a Top 4 LH dman which we have in Gardiner. As much as I would hate to lose Gardiner I believe that packaging him and his skill with a 2nd pick should net Trouba.
To fill that LH hole I would then take next years 1st Rd Pick, our top Dman prospect (guessing Dermott), our top forward prospect (Andreas Johnsson??), offensively gifted Leivo for Ekman-Larsson who I could see leaving Arizona when he is a UFA due to the disarray the franchise is in.
Was thinking that Soshnikov would be enough for a low Cap team to take the final year of Lupul's insured LITR contract as well.
Roster
Left Wing Centre Right Wing
Marleau, Patrick Matthews, Auston Nylander, William
$6,250,000 $925,000 $894,167
Van Riemsdyk, James Bozak, Tyler Marner, Mitchell
$4,250,000 $4,200,000 $894,167
Komarov, Leo Kadri, Nazem Brown, Connor
$2,950,000 $4,500,000 $3,000,000
Martin, Matt Moore, Dominic Hyman, Zach
$2,500,000 $1,000,000 $2,250,000
Fehr, Eric Smith, Ben
$2,000,000 $650,000
Left Defense Right Defense Goaltender
Ekman-Larsson, Oliver Zaitsev, Nikita Andersen, Frederik
$5,500,000 $4,500,000 $5,000,000
Rielly, Morgan Trouba, Jacob McElhinney, Curtis
$5,000,000 $2,812,500 $850,000
Hainsey, Ron Carrick, Connor
$3,000,000 $750,000
Marincin, Martin
$1,250,000
2017/18
With Buyouts, Retained salaries and Performance Bonuses that line up has a Cap Hit of $73.5 MIL.
2018/19
Let Bozak go for Kapanen, Komarov for Grundstrom, and Fehr for anyone and save $2 MIL from the buyouts being done. Re-sign JVR and Nylander to $6.0-$7 MIL home discounts if both are still dominating, and Trouba to $5-$6 MIL. All 3 for 8 years. Yields around a $72.0 Cap Hit.
2019/2020
Re-signing Matthews, Marner, Ekman-Larsson and Kapanen would be incredibly helped by:
- trading Horton and the last year of his contract which is $3.6 MIL cash but a $5.3 MIL Cap Hit. Would lose a top prospect and/or draft pick.
- trading Marleau on July 2nd and the last year of his contract which is only $1.25 MIL cash after the July 1st $3 MIL signing bonus to save the $6.25 MIL Cap Hit
That would free up an additional $11.55 MIL to help sign the young guns meaning Matthews could be signed between $8 - $11 MIL and Marner to a 'Nylander' contract of $6-7 MIL if Marner continues to excel. Yields around a $79.0 Cap Hit.