Would Boston do this

Created by: JayTea

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 20, 2019

Published: Sep. 24, 2019

Team: 2019-20 Minnesota Wild

Legend

Lefthanded

Original Team

Righthanded

Position

No Move/Trade Clause

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000

NMC

UFA - 5

Team Explanation

1 for 1, no sweetener.

Rask is hot garbage, but he’s cheaper this year and Boston can buy him out next summer for $1.33m over the next 4 years which gives them roster flexibility this year to add at the deadline and next year to handle any offseason needs. There is no hoping he bounces back, his best years in Carolina were after Eric Staal left and before Aho took off, so he played top 6 minutes and still only scored 40ish points. He won’t get that in Boston, so he’d be a $4m press box regular or AHLer.

The deals works for Minnesota because they can take on Backes this year and next without much issue with his deal ending a year earlier than Rask. They’ll have around $7m to extend Kunin and Greenway, considering Kaprizov is supposed to finally sign his ELC when his KHL deal ends in April.

Trades

MIN

Backes, David

BOS

Rask, Victor

Buyouts

Tyler Ennis: $1,216,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Devan Dubnyk: $2,166,666 (50%)
Victor Rask: $2,000,000 (50%)

DRAFT YEAR	ROUND 1	ROUND 2	ROUND 3	ROUND 4	ROUND 5	ROUND 6	ROUND 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$79,257,757	$0	$1,100,000	$2,242,243

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Zucker, Jason $5,500,000 LW, RW NTC UFA - 4	Staal, Eric $1,625,000 C NTC UFA - 2	Donato, Ryan $1,900,000 LW, C RFA - 2
Parise, Zach $7,538,462 LW NMC UFA - 6	Kunin, Luke $925,000 RW, C RFA - 1	Zuccarello, Mats $6,000,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 5
Fiala, Kevin $3,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Koivu, Mikko $5,500,000 C NMC UFA - 1	Hartman, Ryan $1,900,000 C, RW UFA - 2
Greenway, Jordan $916,666 LW, RW UFA - 1	Eriksson Ek, Joel $1,487,500 C UFA - 2	Foligno, Marcus $2,875,000 LW, RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Suter, Ryan $7,538,462 LD NMC UFA - 6	Dumba, Matt $6,000,000 RD UFA - 4	Dubnyk, Devan $2,166,667 G NTC UFA - 2
Brodin, Jonas $4,166,667 LD UFA - 2	Spurgeon, Jared $5,187,500 RD NMC UFA - 1	Stalock, Alex $785,000 G UFA - 3
Seeler, Nick $725,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Pateryn, Greg $2,250,000 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Backes, David $4,500,000 C, RW NTC UFA - 2
Hunt, Brad $700,000 LD UFA - 2
Brown, J.T. $687,500 RW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Sep. 24, 2019 at 9:45 p.m.

Bcarlo25

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 19,298

Likes: 6,453

I’ve proposed this a couple times. I love the idea and think it’s perfect for both sides

Sep. 24, 2019 at 9:47 p.m.

Newgod77

Joined: Jul. 2018

Posts: 98

Likes: 31

Yes and yes.

Sep. 24, 2019 at 9:47 p.m.

DeepSouthHockey

Joined: Sep. 2019

Posts: 14

Likes: 1

Probably not. Backes had 7 goals and 13 assists as a 3rd/4th line RW while Rask only had 3 goals (as a 4th line C), I expected more even if he played in only 49 games.

Sep. 24, 2019 at 9:50 p.m.

JayTea

Joined: Mar. 2019

Posts: 3,060

Likes: 2,623

Quoting: DeepSouthHockey

Probably not. Backes had 7 goals and 13 assists as a 3rd/4th line RW while Rask only had 3 goals (as a 4th line C), I expected more even if he played in only 49 games.

They're both sitting in the press box most likely, so it's pretty much purely a salary deal. Minnesota gets a good locker room guy I guess, but I don't think their points really matter. Boston buries Rask and uses the $3m they saved over Backes to go out and get a better player on an expiring deal for that cost and instantly improves.