Pelech Out - Sadness In

Created by: MoreOfAnIslesGuy

Team: 2019-20 New York Islanders

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 3, 2020

Published: Jan. 3, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

What do we do? Pelech is one of the more underrated defensemen in the NHL - pure top 4, arguably top 2 shut-down defense that is unparalleled across the league. One of the best (and admittedly most underpaid) players to play on this team is gone for the rest of the season with an achilles. Our defense is still good; but i've seen comparisons drawn to when De Haan went down with an injury a few seasons ago and the season was practically over. In my opinion, Pelech is better. We have more competent coaching and most solid replacements now but I'm still worried about this. Should be play Dobson on the top or should we instead get Leddy up there, or maybe Toews and play Sebastian Aho?

Buyouts

Rick DiPietro: $0

Buried

Andrew Ladd: $4,425,000 ($5,500,000)
Thomas Hickey: $1,425,000 ($2,500,000)

Draft	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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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$72,039,166	$0	$1,220,000	$9,460,834

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Lee, Anders $7,000,000$7,000,000 LW NTC UFA - 7	Barzal, Mathew $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) C, RW UFA - 1	Kühnhackl, Tom $850,000$850,000 RW UFA - 1
Beauvillier, Anthony $2,100,000$2,100,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Nelson, Brock $6,000,000$6,000,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 6	Brassard, Derick $1,200,000$1,200,000 C, LW UFA - 1
Johnston, Ross $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW UFA - 3	Bailey, Josh $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW, C UFA - 5	Eberle, Jordan $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW NTC UFA - 5
Martin, Matt $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Cizikas, Casey $3,350,000$3,350,000 C UFA - 2	Komarov, Leo $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW, LW, C M-NTC UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Pulock, Ryan $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD UFA - 1	Dobson, Noah $894,167$894,167 ($537,500$538K) RD RFA - 3	Varlamov, Semyon $5,000,000$5,000,000 G NTC UFA - 4
Leddy, Nick $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD UFA - 3	Boychuk, Johnny $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Greiss, Thomas $3,333,333$3,333,333 G UFA - 1
Toews, Devon $700,000$700,000 LD UFA - 1	Mayfield, Scott $1,450,000$1,450,000 RD UFA - 4

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Aho, Sebastian $770,000$770,000 ($100,000$100K) LD UFA - 1	Vande Sompel, Mitch $728,333$728,333 ($182,500$182K) LD UFA - 1	Pelech, Adam $1,600,000$1,600,000 LD UFA - 2
Dal Colle, Michael $700,000$700,000 LW UFA - 2	Clutterbuck, Cal $3,500,000$3,500,000 RW UFA - 3

Top Comments

Jan. 3, 2020 at 8:38 p.m.

MoreOfAnIslesGuy

Isles For Life

Joined: May 2017

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Jan. 3, 2020 at 8:43 p.m.

ForsbergForVezina

CHI NYI

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 4,663

Likes: 2,253

Someone suggested to me earlier:

Leddy-Pulock
Toews-Mayfield
Dobson/Aho-Boychuk

Not sure how they're gonna handle Aho and Dobson. Personally, I'd like to keep Leddy and Boychuk together, pair one of the rookies with Mayfield and play them in sheltered minutes and then put Toews on the top pair with Pulock. N