Loui Eriksson Cap Dump Backes deal comparable

Created by: C21

Team: 2020-21 Minnesota Wild

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 11, 2020

Published: Aug. 11, 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

--------------------DISCLAIMER-----------------------
This is by no means a finished product. It's an idea that uses the David Backes cap dump as building blocks

My Thought Process:
Last trade deadline, Boston dumped 75% of 35 year old David Backes remaining salary on the Ducks for a year and a half. In return they got 24 year old W Ondrej Kase. Obvioisly Kase is much more valuable than Backes who had negative trade value, so to fill the gap, Boston added defensive prospect, Axel Anderson and a 1st round pick in the upcoming draft (2020). My deal is very similar. This offseason Vancouver unloads 75% of 35 year old Loui Eriksson's contract on the Minnesota Wild for the next 2 FULL seasons. To do this, they give up LHD prospect, Jack Rathbone (Axel Anderson) and a 2021 first round pick for F Ryan Donato.

Since this figuritive deal takes place in the 2020 offseason, Loui has a full 2 seasons left on his contract (Backes had 1.5) and Ryan Donato only has 1 full year left on his deal (Kase had 1.5) so that difference at the very least cancels out, unless you want to say that that slight discrepency means Minnesota deserves more value than Anaheim.

This also helps Minnesota feel a lot more comftorable with, and potentially open to the idea moving Brodin, should they wish to do so.

Please let me know your thoughts and tell me what you would change, if anything. Saying "no" or "this would never/won't happen" is not productive. And I know it's not likely, I'm not saying it is, I'm exploring the idea, the concept of this deal.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Kähkönen, Kaapo	2	$925,000
Greenway, Jordan	2	$1,900,000
Kunin, Luke	2	$2,750,000
Sturm, Nico	2	$925,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Soucy, Carson		2	$2,500,000

Trades

MIN

Eriksson, Loui ($1,500,000 retained)
Rathbone, Jack
2021 1st round pick (VAN)

VAN

Donato, Ryan

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$72,032,758	$0	$925,000	$9,467,242

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Parise, Zach $7,538,462$7,538,462 LW NMC UFA - 5	Staal, Eric $1,625,000$1,625,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Fiala, Kevin $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Kaprizov, Kirill $925,000$925,000 ($925,000$925K) LW UFA - 1	Eriksson Ek, Joel $1,487,500$1,487,500 C UFA - 1	Kunin, Luke $2,750,000$2,750,000 RW, C RFA - 2
	Sturm, Nico $925,000$925,000 C UFA - 2	Zuccarello, Mats $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 4
Foligno, Marcus $2,875,000$2,875,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Rask, Victor $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 2
Greenway, Jordan $1,900,000$1,900,000 LW, RW UFA - 2		Hartman, Ryan $1,900,000$1,900,000 C, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Suter, Ryan $7,538,462$7,538,462 LD NMC UFA - 5	Dumba, Matt $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD UFA - 3
Brodin, Jonas $4,166,667$4,166,667 LD NMC UFA - 1	Spurgeon, Jared $7,575,000$7,575,000 RD NMC UFA - 7	Stalock, Alex $785,000$785,000 G UFA - 2
	Hunt, Brad $700,000$700,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Kähkönen, Kaapo $925,000$925,000 G UFA - 2
Soucy, Carson $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Eriksson, Loui $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2
Pateryn, Greg $2,250,000$2,250,000 RD UFA - 1
Dubnyk, Devan $2,166,667$2,166,667 G M-NTC UFA - 1

Top Comments

Aug. 11, 2020 at 1:58 a.m.

Nighthawk

2018 Canucks

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 2,174

Likes: 747

Not gonna roast this trade so here goes lol

Rathbone is a big cost control prospect to move out.
The 1st is a big piece to trade.
Retaining cap I get.

Now that said it’s too much. Canucks don’t need more wingets that alone sinks this proposal. Next the retention & high D prospect & 1st is over pay cuz imo it says it ride out & not be desperate. Loui & a 1st won’t find takers for 2yrs. I propose Loui/1st retain 50% if JB says thx Loui but GL. 3m per actual cost is 2.5m per so that’s a 500k salary that is below league min of 700k. The 1st is the carrot or it’s a non starter. Ty

Aug. 11, 2020 at 2:06 a.m.

Canucks1

Canucks123

Joined: Aug. 2015

Posts: 680

Likes: 72

Jesus. Canucks get fleeced here. We’ll gladly keep Loui Eriksson with only two years left than give up our top 3 prospect and another 1st.

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Aug. 11, 2020 at 9:11 a.m.

JayTea

14m in dead cap

Joined: Mar. 2019

Posts: 3,619

Likes: 3,089

That's a lot to give up for the Canucks, but I'm not 100% sure it's a no-brainer for the Wild. In this scenario, they'd have around $28m in cap space in 2021 which sounds like a lot but they'll need to find a 1C to replace Staal's steal of a contract and extend RFAs Fiala, Kaprizov, and Erickson Ek as well as find a starting goalie in case Stalock/Kahkonen isn't a solid duo so depending on how things pan out, they might need the extra $4.5m. Hopefully someone like Menell, Khovanov, or Beckman make the team that year to help provide cheap players.

Aug. 11, 2020 at 10:02 a.m.

C21

Joined: Aug. 2020

Posts: 1,752

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Quoting: Nighthawk

Yeah, I kinda figured this wouldn't be a massive hit on the Canucks side of things but i still wanted to basically copy the Backes deal.

I saw Donato as slightly less valuable than Kase, Loui as slightly less valuable than Backes, Rathbone as more valuable than Andersson and the 1st as a bit more valuable than Boston's.

This deal also takes away another VAN 1st rounder, but i still wanted to try to copy that deal we saw at the deadline. That being said, this deal still favours Minnesota so some ideas i had to try and make THIS deal work were: remove/lessen the retain on Loui, MIN adds a pick, VAN switches out the first for a later pick (year or round, it doesn't matter)

Overall, I'm just curious to see how a deal would work if the main pieces were: Donato for Loui, Rathbone and a pick. Or would it have to be another, presumably less valuable VAN prospect like Joulevi?

Aug. 11, 2020 at 10:12 a.m.

hanson493

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 5,618

Likes: 2,764

Quoting: C21

Bruins traded: david backes 25% retained lesser prospect in axel andersson and a late 2020 first for a top 6 potential forward. Donato is not that. Donato would not bring back a 1st at this point in any trade. if the main pieces are loui, rathbone and a 1st they are getting back a rather solid player not ryan donato.

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