Young Guns or Bust

Created by: Dr_Invictus

Team: 2022-23 Calgary Flames

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 6, 2022

Published: Dec. 6, 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

Hear me out: Calgary needs to stop pretending they are a contender. They're not: They can't close, hold a lead and are too slow to make it deep into the playoffs. I say they let the kids play and recoup assets for the draft. If they get worse, fine... we draft higher.

Markstrom is still a great goalie. I know flames fans will hate me for trading him and Buffalo fans will think he is worthless from his past few starts. He has the yips. You'll notice the last few months, he gives up one dumb goal and then returns to form. It's all mental, and the change will be a win for everyone.

Coleman will only waive for somewhere closer to home and I figure Arizona could use a TWF winger to stabilize the kids. Honestly, they need a center but I dont see Calgary providing that.

Mangiapane would slay with Barzal (IMO). Cizikas is to balance out the cap, and replace Rooney when we send him to the minors.

Trades

CGY

Comrie, Eric
2023 1st round pick (BUF)

Additional Details:

A trade will Solve the Yips.

BUF

Markström, Jacob

Additional Details:

Vladar and Wolf are coming through the pipeline.

CGY

Cizikas, Casey
2023 1st round pick (NYI)

NYI

Mangiapane, Andrew

CGY

2024 3rd round pick (NYR)

ARI

Coleman, Blake

Buried

Kevin Rooney: $175,000 ($1,300,000)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$82,500,000	$60,000,833	$0	$200,000	$22,499,167

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Huberdeau, Jonathan $5,900,000$5,900,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Lindholm, Elias $4,850,000$4,850,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Phillips, Matthew $750,000$750,000 RW, C UFA - 1
Pelletier, Jakob $863,333$863,333 LW RFA - 2	Kadri, Nazem $7,000,000$7,000,000 C NMC UFA - 7	Toffoli, Tyler $2,125,000$2,125,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Dubé, Dillon $2,300,000$2,300,000 LW, RW, C RFA - 2	Backlund, Mikael $5,350,000$5,350,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Ruzicka, Adam $762,500$762,500 LW, C UFA - 2
Lucic, Milan $5,250,000$5,250,000 LW, RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1		Ritchie, Brett $750,000$750,000 RW UFA - 1
	Cizikas, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 C UFA - 5

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Hanifin, Noah $1,237,500$1,237,500 LD M-NTC UFA - 2
Weegar, MacKenzie $3,250,000$3,250,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Andersson, Rasmus $4,550,000$4,550,000 RD UFA - 4	Vladar, Daniel $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1
Zadorov, Nikita $3,750,000$3,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Tanev, Christopher $1,125,000$1,125,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Comrie, Eric $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 2
	Stone, Michael $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Mackey, Connor $912,500$912,500 LD UFA - 1	Kylington, Oliver $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 2
Lewis, Trevor $800,000$800,000 ($200,000$200K) RW, C UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Huberdeau, J.		Backlund, M.		Lindholm, E.
	Hanifin, N.		Andersson, R.

Power Play 2
Toffoli, T.		Kadri, N.		Phillips, M.
	Weegar, M.		Zadorov, N.

Penalty Kill 1
	Lindholm, E.	Dubé, D.
	Hanifin, N.	Andersson, R.

Penalty Kill 2
	Backlund, M.	Cizikas, C.
	Weegar, M.	Tanev, C.

Top Comments

Dec. 6, 2022 at 8:22 p.m.

sabres89

Joined: Feb. 2017

Posts: 8,368

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There's not many goalies I would move an early first for.

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Dec. 6, 2022 at 8:26 p.m.

Dr_Invictus

Joined: May 2017

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Quoting: sabres89

There's not many goalies I would move an early first for.

My thought was that it wouldn't be that early if Markstrom played like he could. I've watched a few Buffalo games this year and I honestly think they are just a few pieces from being a playoff team.

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Dec. 6, 2022 at 8:56 p.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 28,015

Likes: 14,647

Would need protection on the 1st to consider

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Dec. 6, 2022 at 9:42 p.m.

Tjm220

Sabres fan

Joined: Jul. 2020

Posts: 5,014

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If that were the cost for Markstrom it wouldn’t make a ton of sense for Buffalo. Even with top 10 protection on the pick, Buffalo has several young goaltenders coming up and no desire to block them with an expensive veteran.

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Dec. 6, 2022 at 9:45 p.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 28,015

Likes: 14,647

Quoting: Tjm220

Several?

Also, he is signed for 3 years after this.

If all goes well that is a fine transition to Levi

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