Letting Newhook grow into 2C

Created by: turtlemountain

Team: 2022-23 Colorado Avalanche

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 12, 2022

Published: Jun. 18, 2022

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

Avs trade for Kerfoot (or similar) to provide additional center depth. Newhook gets surrounded by strong play driving wingers (Nuke/Lehkonen). If he’s not ready for bigger minutes, Kerfoot/Compher can platoon duty 2C (with Landeskog/Rantanen shifting down the lineup if needed).

Kulak is interchangeable with any defenseman that can PK on a bottom pairing.

Kuemper can be swapped out with Husso (etc) for cheaper if need be.

Didn’t bother much with the AHL lineup, but imagine most RFAs are qualified.

Kerfoot, Compher, and EJ expire at the end of the season to make room for large MacKinnon, Newhook, and Byram extensions.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Lehkonen, Artturi	5	$4,000,000
Aubé-Kubel, Nicolas	2	$1,250,000
Maltsev, Mikhail	1	$1,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Kuemper, Darcy	5	$6,000,000
Nichushkin, Valeri	6	$5,750,000
Cogliano, Andrew	1	$1,000,000
Kulak, Brett	3	$3,000,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Yakupov, Nail		1	$950,000

Trades

COL

Kerfoot, Alexander

TOR

2022 3rd round pick (COL)

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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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$82,500,000	$81,427,500	$25,000	$3,562,500	$1,072,500

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Landeskog, Gabriel $7,000,000$7,000,000 LW, C NMC UFA - 7	MacKinnon, Nathan $6,300,000$6,300,000 C NMC UFA - 1	Rantanen, Mikko $9,250,000$9,250,000 RW, C UFA - 3
Lehkonen, Artturi $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 5	Newhook, Alex $908,333$908,333 ($850,000$850K) C, LW RFA - 1	Nichushkin, Valeri $5,750,000$5,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 8
Cogliano, Andrew $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW UFA - 1	Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Compher, J.T. $3,500,000$3,500,000 C, RW UFA - 1
O'Connor, Logan $1,050,000$1,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 3	Meyers, Ben $912,500$912,500 ($212,500$212K) LW, C UFA - 1
		Aubé-Kubel, Nicolas $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Toews, Devon $4,100,000$4,100,000 LD UFA - 2	Makar, Cale $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD UFA - 5	Kuemper, Darcy $6,000,000$6,000,000 G UFA - 5
Byram, Bowen $894,167$894,167 ($2,500,000$2M) LD/RD RFA - 1	Girard, Samuel $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 5	Francouz, Pavel $2,000,000$2,000,000 G UFA - 2
Kulak, Brett $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 4	Johnson, Erik $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
MacDermid, Kurtis $987,500$987,500 LD/RD, LW UFA - 2

Top Comments

Jun. 18, 2022 at 3:14 p.m.

earl08

Joined: Jan. 2019

Posts: 3,776

Likes: 974

I like this idea A LOT. Kerfoot, Haula, Namestnikov, guys like that are the perfect addition for next season. Avs can spend enough on a decent 3C for the one season only. Newhook becoming 2C is the key for an extended window. If he doesn't pan out, Sakic will be scrambling to adjust under very tight cap numbers.

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Jun. 18, 2022 at 3:19 p.m.

Richard88

John 3 16

Joined: Apr. 2020

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$3m for Kulak as 6D is too much with EJ still on the roster.

Jun. 18, 2022 at 3:26 p.m.

turtlemountain

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 2,698

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Quoting: Richard88

$3m for Kulak as 6D is too much with EJ still on the roster.

Could always replace him with Lyubushkin, Gudbranson, or Jack Johnson for cheaper.

That said, I think Kulak at 3M is much more realistic for that role than Manson (which is frequently done here). Whoever plays on the bottom pairing with EJ is going to be primarily a PKer that plays up the lineup during injuries.

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Jun. 18, 2022 at 3:36 p.m.

odyssey

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Joined: Apr. 2021

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a third for a player who just got 54 pints? nah we will pass

Jun. 18, 2022 at 3:52 p.m.

turtlemountain

Joined: Jun. 2015

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Quoting: odyssey

a third for a player who just got 54 pints? nah we will pass

Based off of a proposal from @LEAFS_ADDICT_ON_THE_RADIO earlier today. Open to suggestions though.

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