Can Eichel Zibanejad and Fox work long term Part 3

Created by: mvp13

Team: 2023-24 New York Rangers

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 10, 2021

Published: Aug. 10, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Seeing if Eichel, Zibanejad, and Fox can work long term with fair values

Part 3 notes: This year is fairly comfortable, but the following year is an absolute disaster that luckily CapFriendly won't even let me attempt. Kakko, Lindgren, Lundkvist, Miller, and Schneider all need new contracts after this year. Barring some insane cap raises, I just don't see that as being humanly possible.

Conclusion: Kreider, Trouba, or Zibanejad need to be apart of any type of Eichel trade to make the cap comfortable down the road. Or, perhaps more simply, the Eichel trade just can't work out. These are some pretty swell teams over 3 years, though. It could be worth it. And who knows what will happen with the cap 3 years later at the end of the day. It was kind of fun to see how it could potentially work out.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Othmann, Brennan		2	$925,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Lafrenière, Alexis	4	$4,000,000
Kakko, Kaapo	1	$2,500,000
Miller, K'Andre	2	$2,000,000
Fox, Adam	7	$9,500,000
Barron, Morgan	2	$900,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Zibanejad, Mika	5	$9,500,000
Hunt, Dryden	2	$2,000,000
Reaves, Ryan	1	$1,000,000
McKegg, Greg	1	$900,000
Kinkaid, Keith	1	$1,000,000

Trades

NYR

ANA

Nemeth, Patrik

NYR

Eichel, Jack

BUF

Buyouts

Brad Richards: $0
Jacob Trouba: $2,222,222

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$82,705,971	$610,892	$1,422,500	$794,029

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Panarin, Artemi $11,642,857$11,642,857 LW NMC UFA - 3	Eichel, Jack $10,000,000$10,000,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Kakko, Kaapo $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW RFA - 1
Lafrenière, Alexis $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Zibanejad, Mika $9,500,000$9,500,000 C UFA - 7	Kreider, Chris $6,500,000$6,500,000 LW NMC UFA - 4
Othmann, Brennan $925,000$925,000 LW RFA - 3	Goodrow, Barclay $3,641,667$3,641,667 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 4	Hunt, Dryden $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
McKegg, Greg $900,000$900,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Barron, Morgan $900,000$900,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Reaves, Ryan $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW UFA - 3
Cuylle, Will $828,333$828,333 ($82,500$82K) LW RFA - 2	Henriksson, Karl $870,000$870,000 C RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Lindgren, Ryan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD RFA - 1	Fox, Adam $9,500,000$9,500,000 RD UFA - 6	Shesterkin, Igor $5,666,667$5,666,667 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Miller, K'Andre $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD RFA - 2	Lundkvist, Nils $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 1	Kinkaid, Keith $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1
Robertson, Matthew $797,500$797,500 ($32,500$32K) LD RFA - 1	Schneider, Braden $925,000$925,000 ($400,000$400K) RD RFA - 1
	Skinner, Hunter $850,833$850,833 ($57,500$58K) RD RFA - 1

Top Comments

Aug. 10, 2021 at 10:30 a.m.

villenash

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Lindgren, Robertson, Lundkvist, Schneider, and Kakko all up after this season -- I don't think it's worth it for any team to have 4 players taking up nearly 50% of the cap.

Aug. 10, 2021 at 10:33 a.m.

Club_de_Hockey_le_Canadien

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Honestly if New York were able to make an Eichel trade without losing Lafreniere, Zibanejad, Fox, or Kakko they'd be a real-life NHL 21 Franchise Mode team, but I doubt Buffalo moves him unless one of them is included, or unless its a massive overpay.

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Aug. 10, 2021 at 10:37 a.m.

mvp13

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Quoting: villenash

Lindgren, Robertson, Lundkvist, Schneider, and Kakko all up after this season -- I don't think it's worth it for any team to have 4 players taking up nearly 50% of the cap.

With or without Eichel, the Rangers will be in that territory with Panarin, Mika, Fox, and Trouba, anyway.

But yes, my conclusion is that 3 years later the trade will come to haunt the team big time. Could those three years be worth it, though? Even without Eichel, a 2nd line center will cost at least 4million... it's still tough to sign all of those players, PLUS the players we lose in an Eichel trade. No matter what some drastic measures are going to be needed. But, it's always possible the cap can raise better over 3 years than currently projected

Aug. 10, 2021 at 10:39 a.m.

mvp13

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Quoting: Club_de_Hockey_le_Canadien

I think that's underrating Kravstov a little bit. Regardless, replace Kravstov with Kakko and I think it all plays out similarly for NYR (at least cap wise)

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Aug. 10, 2021 at 11:13 a.m.

CMcAvoy73

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Very doubtful the caps going up.
4 years for laf brings him direct to UFA without buying out any UFA years. That ain’t happening.

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