Just an Idea

Created by: Nqutilus

Team: 2022-23 Colorado Avalanche

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 6, 2022

Published: Sep. 6, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

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I know Byron's cap hit isn't great, but the guy can skate, and he can skate FAST. He literally already fits the mold of Bednar's style. I really think he'd be a good presence in the bottom 6, and he already has Lehky here. I really think he could be an underrated pickup, maybe a cheap signing in free agency when we give the big bucks to Nate?

Before someone flames me: No, I'm not saying Byron is given for free, I'm unsure of the price to acquire him. I'm thinking a 3rd or something like that?

Trades

COL

Byron, Paul ($1,700,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Obviously there needs to be retention. we're not taking his full cap hit. My real question is the price. I don't anticipate it being too high since he's a 33 y/o pending UFA with less than 10 points and he's had injury issues last year.

MTL

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$81,153,333	$25,000	$3,775,000	$1,346,667

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 $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 5	Newhook, Alex $908,333$908,333 ($850,000$850K) C, LW RFA - 1	Nichushkin, Valeri $6,125,000$6,125,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 8
	Compher, J.T. $3,500,000$3,500,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Kaut, Martin $863,333$863,333 ($425,000$425K) RW RFA - 1
Cogliano, Andrew $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW UFA - 1	Helm, Darren $1,250,000$1,250,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 1	O'Connor, Logan $1,050,000$1,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Sedlak, Lukas $800,000$800,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 1
Byron, Paul $1,700,000$1,700,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Girard, Samuel $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 5	Makar, Cale $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD UFA - 5	Georgiev, Alexandar $3,400,000$3,400,000 G UFA - 3
Toews, Devon $4,100,000$4,100,000 LD UFA - 2	Johnson, Erik $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1	Francouz, Pavel $2,000,000$2,000,000 G UFA - 2
Byram, Bowen $894,167$894,167 ($2,500,000$2M) LD/RD RFA - 1	Manson, Josh $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 4
MacDermid, Kurtis $987,500$987,500 LD/RD, LW UFA - 2
Englund, Andreas $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 1

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Sep. 6, 2022 at 3:22 p.m.

Reff

Joined: Jan. 2020

Posts: 150

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Sadly Byron has hip injuries and will likely start on LTIR, if not being out for the season. If he was healthy, I don' think he should get more than a 5th round pick with retention.

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Sep. 6, 2022 at 3:23 p.m.

Nqutilus

Jones is Underpaid

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Quoting: Reff

Sadly Byron has hip injuries and will likely start on LTIR, if not being out for the season. If he was healthy, I don' think he should get more than a 5th round pick with retention.

I'm hoping he comes back. I really think he would fit well and I'm sure he would love the chance to play with Lehky again.

Sep. 6, 2022 at 3:31 p.m.

Just_A_Guess

Joined: Apr. 2021

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I'll take anything for him, he is a speed demon but no fit anymore.

Quoting: Reff

Sadly Byron has hip injuries and will likely start on LTIR, if not being out for the season. If he was healthy, I don' think he should get more than a 5th round pick with retention.

5th seems reasonable

Sep. 6, 2022 at 3:31 p.m.

F50marco

Joined: May 2015

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When he's healthy, he is soooo underrated. Unfortunately lately he's been injured a lot. Small guy who plays like he's 6'3 and its finally starting to catch up to him. I doubt he's traded at all frankly. Habs have no reason to use a retention slot on him and no team should trade for him at full cost, even for free unless salary is going back to the Habs but even then there's a possibility he doesn't come back this year at all which basically makes trading for him impossible at this point.

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Sep. 6, 2022 at 3:39 p.m.

raph222b

SLAFKOVKSY

Joined: Dec. 2021

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Weird take but MTL prefer not trading him over retaining. Reasoning behind that is there is Dadonov, Drouin, Monahan, Allen to retain on potentially. The retaintion on Dadonov, Drouin, Monahan could really rise their value, but for Byron its going from future considerations to a 6th round pick, which doesn't really worth it when Drouin could go from a 6th to a 3rd+ with retained.

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