Tampa No Problem

Verhaege had a great year in the AHL, and I speculated that Girardi would want to extend cheap for another try at the cup. I figured Tampa wants to keep their core intact as much as possible after last year.

They got to get heavier and tougher to play against, even at a loss of talent, they got to get bigger and tougher from somewhere, nothing too extreme but they need a player or two that adds that

They could have Foote, who´s a giant on the roster instead of Girardi. If they would trade Gourde instead of Miller, that would move a small player. Yanni being only 5´9 tall. They could also add size on the fourth line.

No problem? Congrats you've shifted the '19-'20 cap crunch to '21-'22 and made that year much more difficult. Meanwhile the team is worse than this year's team that went down in history as the worst playoff performance compared to the regular season in any sport.

Okay you made 19-20 work by buying out Callahan which means his 2.67M hits this year and next. Better hope the cap rises more next year because next year you need room for Vasilevskiy's raise, Cirelli and Volkov coming off their ELC's.

I kinda wonder if there’s a point to Detroit blockbuster coming Bertuzzi, Svechnikov, Cholowski, hronek and 2020 first or something along those line, Tb needs the cap and size and det has the cap space and elite talent in point