Nylander Blockbuster

Team: 2020-21 Colorado Avalanche

Initial Creation Date: May 7, 2020

Published: May 7, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

This is an attempt at making a Nylander trade work without including Newhook or Byram. The package given up is large and involves a tonne of futures, but as shown below we can make it work nonetheless.

For reference in this link is an Toronto AGM based on the same Nylander trade. Toronto trades Nylander to make room for signing Pietrangelo: https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/1726703


***** 2020 OFFSEASON *****


Roster moves:
- UFA: Namestnikov, Nieto, Wilson, Barberio.
- Resign: Burakovsky, Nichuskin, Kamenev, Graves.
- Promote Byram.
- Trade Zadorov for picks.
- Trade for Nylander and Andersen (see AGM trades below).


***** 2021 OFFSEASON *****


Expansion Draft Protection (7+3+1):
- Mackinnon, Rantanen, Landeskog, Kadri, Nylander, Burakovsky, Donskoi;
- Makar, Girard, Graves;
- Francouz.
Exposed: Compher, Nichuskin, Johnson (waives NMC), Andersen (exposed but doesn't agree to sign as an UFA with Seattle as he would rather resign with a top contender).

Roster Moves:
- Compher selected by Seattle.
- Promote Newhook, Bowers, O'Connor.
- Resign Andersen (~$5m)
- Trade Johnson (w/ picks)
- UFA signing/trade for: a 4th line winger, and two 3rd pairing Dmen (eg. 2 Nemeth types who are good at Pk'ing)
- Resign Makar (+$7m raise) and Landeskog (+$2.5m raise). Their raises will be about $9.5m combined.

Raises for Makar and Landeskog can be covered by the moves below. (These moves total ~$12m which is $2.5m over what is needed for Makar/Landeskog, so there is some margin to be more generous on roster additions if needed).
- Compher ($3.5m) ---> Newhook (ELC) = Saves $2.5m
- Calvert ($2.85m) ----> O'Connor (900k) = Saves $2m
- Bellemare ($1.8m) ---> $1m 4th liner UFA = Saves $800k.
- Ian Cole ($4.25m) ---> $1.5m #6D in UFA =Saves $2.75m
- Johnson ($6m) -----> $2m #5D in UFA = saves $4m
- Note that there's also the chance that some of the 4th line/3rd pairing roles could be filled cheaply by ELC's rather than UFA's (eg. Kovalenko/Ranta/Beaucage/Zhuravlyov/Helleson/etc).

2021-22 Roster:

Landeskog ---- Mackinnon ---- Rantanen
Burakovsky ------ Kadri --------- Nylander
Nichuskin ------ Newhook ----- Donskoi
UFA --------------- Bowers -------- O'Connor

Graves --- Makar
Girard ---- Byram
UFA ------- UFA

Andersen
Francouz

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