Ideal somewhat realistic offseason

Strome is going to get close to his qualifying offer. He's young and been decently productive. Probably looking at north of 3.5M per.

Maybe, I didn’t put much thought into it, I’m sure you could lower Engvall and Sandins salary to pay strome more

You mean not realistic. Minnesota doesn't need Kerfoot whose a bottom line expensive player. Minnesota has no space. Minnesota isn't trading Talbot to take on more cap

I can't see the Wild moving Talbot out and taking basically the same cap hit back in - *if* they're moving him I assume it's for picks or guys on their ELC, and they use part of the savings to find a 1B for Fleury. I would throw a 3rd and a guy like Abramov or Steeves at them for the deal and then trade Kerfoot elsewhere for a 3rd to recoup the pick.

I don't see Ottawa buying Murray out at this point - they've got more than $20M in cap available as we speak and that's *with* his cap hit active. If they buy him out now it carries an extra $2.5M cap hit in 2024-25 & 25-26, which is right when their young players are going to start needing big money extensions. I think, if anything, they'd rather eat the $3.125M retention hit this year and next when they have so many guys on ELCs and the cap space is less valuable to them.

Holl for a 4th is fine; Holl to St. Louis makes less sense, but I just don't think any of us can know where he winds up. Someone will want to upgrade their RD3 between now and training camp and decide Holl is a better piece than whatever's left out there, and that's when you'll see him move.

Interesting. To me Kerfoot just seems like a perfect Minnesota Wild player, but I’m sure the leafs can offer a different package if Talbot really does want out