sauteing in bad contract hell sizzle

Created by: poeticentropy

Team: 2022-23 San Jose Sharks

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 22, 2022

Published: Jun. 29, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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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

Longtime lurker first time poster.

Give Lebanc and Dahlen another chance while also playing the youth.
Trading Lebanc now would be terrible since his value could not be much worse and I think he will rebound. He has an incredibly shot and creative puck handling skills, but is a very streaky player.

Help EDM a bit with a trade for Kane but retaining and taking cap dumps will actually cost something otherwise why wouldn't SJ just buy him out for less? Both sides have reasons to have lower expectations in the trade value, so I don't see it going lopsided in either direction.

Hill and Simek can go to anyone with room that want to upgrade for picks. Reimer has a NTC so more difficult to move and a Kahk/Reimer split season is a solid goalie situation.

Not sure if buying out Vlasic now opposed to next year is wise, but he's terrible at his current price and not tradeable. A buyout now would allow him to go play somewhere else and will allow SJ to play younger D who are ready.

This is probably a team that remains in the barely missing playoffs while refusing rebuild purgatory . I don't think a single UFA signing, e.g., Mason Marchment is going to take them into the playoffs, and I don't think the owner will ever let SJ go to full rebuild (trading away fan-favorites is a no no). So just accept fate and roll it for the next couple years until expiring contracts get them out of trouble.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Chmelevski, Alexander	2	$800,000
Kähkönen, Kaapo	2	$2,250,000
Gregor, Noah	2	$1,300,000
Dahlén, Jonathan	2	$1,400,000
Meloche, Nicolas	1	$800,000
Gadjovich, Jonah	1	$800,000
Leonard, John	1	$950,000
Sawchenko, Zach	1	$750,000
Ferraro, Mario	3	$3,400,000
Puljujärvi, Jesse	2	$2,000,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Halbgewachs, Jayden		2	$750,000
Kane, Evander		3	$7,000,000

Trades

SJS

2022 5th round pick (ARI)

ARI

Simek, Radim
2022 7th round pick (ARI)

SJS

Kassian, Zack
Puljujärvi, Jesse [RFA Rights]
2023 2nd round pick (EDM)

EDM

Kane, Evander ($2,000,000 retained)

SJS

2022 4th round pick (BUF)
2022 7th round pick (DAL)

BUF

Hill, Adin

Buyouts

Martin Jones: $2,416,667
Marc-Édouard Vlasic: $3,687,500

Retained Salary Transactions

Evander Kane: $2,000,000 (28.57%)

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	$70,154,167	$0	$300,000	$12,345,833

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Meier, Timo $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Hertl, Tomas $6,750,000$6,750,000 C NMC UFA - 8	Barabanov, Alexander $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2
Eklund, William $894,167$894,167 LW RFA - 4	Couture, Logan $8,000,000$8,000,000 C M-NTC UFA - 5	Labanc, Kevin $4,725,000$4,725,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Dahlén, Jonathan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LW, RW UFA	Bonino, Nick $1,025,000$1,025,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Puljujärvi, Jesse $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW UFA - 1
	Gregor, Noah $1,300,000$1,300,000 LW, RW RFA - 1	Kassian, Zack $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 2
Nieto, Matt $850,000$850,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Knyzhov, Nikolai $850,000$850,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Karlsson, Erik $10,000,000$10,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 5
Ferraro, Mario $3,400,000$3,400,000 LD UFA - 4	Burns, Brent $5,280,000$5,280,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3
Megna, Jaycob $762,500$762,500 LD UFA - 2	Merkley, Ryan $863,333$863,333 ($300,000$300K) RD UFA - 1	Kähkönen, Kaapo $2,250,000$2,250,000 G UFA - 2
		Reimer, James $2,250,000$2,250,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Balcers, Rūdolfs $750,000$750,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Meier, T.		Hertl, T.		Barabanov, A.
	Knyzhov, N.		Karlsson, E.

Power Play 2
Eklund, W.		Couture, L.		Labanc, K.
	Merkley, R.		Burns, B.

Penalty Kill 1
	Couture, L.	Nieto, M.
	Ferraro, M.	Burns, B.

Penalty Kill 2
	Gregor, N.	Bonino, N.
	Megna, J.	Karlsson, E.

Top Comments

Jun. 29, 2022 at 7:27 p.m.

glarson17

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 8,172

Likes: 3,652

This is the most realistic trade with Edmonton I’ve seen if Kane gets reinstated. The idea that Edmonton fans have, thanks to that speculative rabbit whole article, that San Jose will give away Kane and take cap dumps for free is ridiculous.

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Jun. 29, 2022 at 8:04 p.m.

vols94

Joined: Jul. 2018

Posts: 4,187

Likes: 1,001

Quoting: glarson17

What they dont realize is given another option to another place Kane will take the money and not end up in Edmonton.

Jun. 30, 2022 at 2:45 a.m.

CheechYou

train, train

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 3,016

Likes: 733

Yep, I see SJ taking on 2mil max in cap retention if the Kane situation doesn't end up in SJ's favor. Don't see them taking on Kassian with it though. In any case, if I were GM, I'd link up the Kane situation directly to Vlasic's potential buy out. I'd spend the maximum possible to improve the team via free agency and trade (given that they've already committed to trying to be good) and then if Kane's situation is all clear, I keep Vlasic. If not and SJ has to retain a few mil if they trade him to a team, then you buy out Vlasic and use that cap space to cover the retention cap hit and replace MEV with Hatakka to pair with Merkley on the bottom pairing.

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