With Muzzin and another Defenseman next year

With Engvall now signed I wanted to look at next year and see how Dubas can fit the oft talked Dumba trade in under the cap while still signing most of the relevant roster.

I have based a bunch off Engvall’s number with mikehyev and Clifford being slightly higher and Spezza, gauthier and timashov slightly lower. I think these are all reasonable.

Dermott gets the same as holl. This seems reasonable.

Muzzin gets a raise to 5000000 and 3 years to stay close to Woodstock with a team he likes. Yes I think he turns down more elsewhere and yes he might sign for more term.

The only way we can sign or trade for a 6000000 defenseman is to get rid of equal salary. That means nylander or 2 of kerfoot, johnsson, kapanen would need to go. If it was me I would get rid of nylander but Dubas seems set on not breaking up that group of top 4.

I am sure minny fans will say this is not enough for Dumba or that he will never be traded. That may be, but I wanted to see what had to realistically happen salary wise to make it work.

So I also looked forward a year and it could work.

In 21/22 you would have 10,000,000 assuming an increase in cap space of 2,000,000

Anderson gets say 6,500,000 for 4 years.....Spezza 1,000,000...leaving about 2,500,000 and just Hyman to sign. At that point you move Engvall up and save that money for someone else and to resign Reilly and Sandin the following year.

I don’t think it will matter, with hell having frozen over with that dumba trade, well all have bigger issues to worry about.

These dumba trades keep getting dumber and dumber

getting Dumba and Dumba