An alternate reality

Team: 2022-23 Carolina Hurricanes

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 9, 2022

Published: Aug. 9, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Revisiting the Justin Faulk trade-
On September 26th 2019, Justin Faulk and a 5th round pick was traded to the blues in exchange for Joel Edmundson, the blues second best prospect at the time in Dominick Bokk, and a 7th round pick. Carolina retained 15% salary on Faulk at the time. St Louis had won the cup the previous season and were in win now mode. If Carolina were to have retained 50% of faulks salary, it would have saved the blues an extra $1.7m. Coming off of a cup win, the blues were rather strapped on cap and the deal in its whole costed an extra $1m in cap. If the deal were to have saved the blues money, I believe that they would have been comfortable parting with their top prospect in Jordan kyrou instead of their 2nd best prospect in bokk. It’s not like the canes didn’t have the cap space either as the same off-season, they took on all of Patrick marleaus contract and were still well under the cap. If St Louis was high on on kyrou, the canes could have also thrown in a pick. These hypotheticals are fun and not like the typical “oh the bruins should have drafted barzal chabot and Connor” or the “what if my team drafted kucherov instead”. Final question to the few people who actually read this, do you think the canes could have won the cup with kyrou on the team this past year?

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