What I wouldve done if I was Zito

Created by: DH28Hockey

Team: 2022-23 Florida Panthers

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 19, 2022

Published: Oct. 19, 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

I think this team would've had a significantly better defense while not losing too too much offense and having 2 additional 1sts. Felt from the start the Tkachuk trade was dumb from Florida

Trades

FLA

CGY

Tkachuk, Matthew

Additional Details:

Certainly not this

FLA

Marchment, Mason

DAL

FLA

2023 1st round pick (NJD)
2024 3rd round pick (NJD)

Additional Details:

Top 5 protected, Ty Smith

NJD

Huberdeau, Jonathan

FLA

Smith, Ty

PIT

Buyouts

Keith Yandle: $5,391,667
Scott Darling: $1,183,333

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$81,884,167	$637,500	$3,100,000	$615,833

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Verhaeghe, Carter $4,166,667$4,166,667 LW UFA - 3	Barkov, Aleksander $10,000,000$10,000,000 C NMC UFA - 8	Reinhart, Sam $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW UFA - 2
Marchment, Mason $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 4	Bennett, Sam $4,425,000$4,425,000 C UFA - 3	Hörnqvist, Patric $5,300,000$5,300,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Balcers, Rūdolfs $750,000$750,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Lundell, Anton $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) C, LW RFA - 2	White, Colin $1,200,000$1,200,000 C, RW UFA - 1
Cousins, Nick $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Luostarinen, Eetu $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Lomberg, Ryan $800,000$800,000 LW, RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Weegar, MacKenzie $3,250,000$3,250,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Ekblad, Aaron $7,500,000$7,500,000 RD NMC UFA - 3	Bobrovsky, Sergei $10,000,000$10,000,000 G NMC UFA - 4
Forsling, Gustav $2,666,667$2,666,667 LD UFA - 2	Montour, Brandon $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Knight, Spencer $925,000$925,000 ($1,850,000$2M) G RFA - 1
Smith, Ty $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) LD/RD RFA - 1	Gudas, Radko $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Carlsson, Lucas $800,000$800,000 LD UFA - 1		Duclair, Anthony $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Staal, Marc $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 1
Mahura, Josh $750,000$750,000 LD/RD RFA - 1

Top Comments

Oct. 19, 2022 at 3:40 p.m.

NorthernLeafsFan05

Amirov Forever

Joined: Mar. 2022

Posts: 6,672

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That NJD trade is TERRIBLE for the Panthers

Oct. 19, 2022 at 3:42 p.m.

ceeque84

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 1,445

Likes: 413

Zito definitely messed up when he traded Weegar.
But trading Huby for a first and third is also brutal if they are suppose to be in a win now window.

Oct. 19, 2022 at 3:47 p.m.

DH28Hockey

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 2,259

Likes: 986

Quoting: Nathaniel

That NJD trade is TERRIBLE for the Panthers

Quoting: ceeque84

Zito definitely messed up when he traded Weegar.
But trading Huby for a first and third is also brutal if they are suppose to be in a win now window.

Then you just trade him for more, probably the least consequential part of this. More meant to show that keeping Marchment and Weegar while retaining futures at the lone cost of Huberdeau would've 100% been the better route to take for long term contention. Now there offense is slightly worse, their defense is bad and they have 0 futures