Most Cash and Upside for AM34

Created by: MikeyVC97

Team: 2024-25 Chicago Blackhawks

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 17, 2023

Published: Aug. 17, 2023

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

Hawks can afford to pay Matthews, the established star. It would be a mistake to pass on signing him with the future plans to pay prospects who may not pop. It is not often that a top 3 player in the league is available when you can actually afford to pay them top dollar.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Krutil, Michael	3	$800,000
Saarijärvi, Vili	3	$800,000
Basse, Dominic	3	$800,000
Gorman, Liam	3	$800,000
Kelley, Connor	3	$800,000
Slaggert, Landon	3	$800,000
Nazar, Frank	3	$925,000
Moore, Oliver	3	$925,000
Rinzel, Sam	3	$925,000
Misiak, Martin	3	$925,000
Greene, Ryan	3	$925,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Guttman, Cole	3	$1,500,000
Reichel, Lukas	3	$3,750,000
Vlasic, Alex	3	$4,000,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Matthews, Auston		7	$15,000,000
Bear, Ethan		4	$5,000,000

Buyouts

Josh Bailey: $1,166,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jake McCabe: $2,000,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$88,500,000	$71,648,333	$0	$5,652,500	$16,851,667

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Reichel, Lukas $3,750,000$3,750,000 LW, C RFA	Matthews, Auston $15,000,000$15,000,000 C UFA - 4	Athanasiou, Andreas $4,250,000$4,250,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Hall, Taylor $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1	Bedard, Connor $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) C RFA - 2	Kurashev, Philipp $2,250,000$2,250,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 1
Savoie, Samuel $878,333$878,333 ($80,000$80K) LW RFA - 2	Moore, Oliver $925,000$925,000 C RFA	Nazar, Frank $925,000$925,000 RW, C RFA - 2
Donato, Ryan $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 1	Guttman, Cole $1,500,000$1,500,000 C RFA	Misiak, Martin $925,000$925,000 RW RFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Vlasic, Alex $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD UFA - 6	Jones, Seth $9,500,000$9,500,000 RD NMC UFA - 6	Söderblom, Arvid $962,500$962,500 G RFA - 1
Korchinski, Kevin $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) LD RFA - 2	Bear, Ethan $5,000,000$5,000,000 RD UFA - 1	Commesso, Drew $925,000$925,000 ($425,000$425K) G RFA - 2
Kaiser, Wyatt $916,667$916,667 ($425,000$425K) LD RFA - 1	Murphy, Connor $4,400,000$4,400,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Allan, Nolan $825,000$825,000 ($82,500$82K) LD RFA - 2
Dach, Colton $825,000$825,000 ($82,500$82K) C RFA - 2
Del Mastro, Ethan $855,833$855,833 ($57,500$58K) LD RFA - 2

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Matthews, A.		Bedard, C.		Athanasiou, A.
	Hall, T.		Jones, S.

Power Play 2
Reichel, L.		Moore, O.		Nazar, F.
	Korchinski, K.		Vlasic, A.

Top Comments

Aug. 17, 2023 at 9:43 a.m.

AnyoneButTheBruins

StevieY19!!

Joined: Jun. 2019

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I doubt he'd wanna sign with a rebuilding team but for that money maybe...

Aug. 17, 2023 at 9:51 a.m.

MikeyVC97

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 924

Likes: 149

Quoting: AnyoneButTheBruins

I doubt he'd wanna sign with a rebuilding team but for that money maybe...

By next offseason, the rebuild will be well underway and the Hawks will be very much in contention especially if Matthews inks with the Hawks. This is a playoff team with him on it.

Aug. 17, 2023 at 9:56 a.m.

AnyoneButTheBruins

StevieY19!!

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 1,071

Likes: 690

Quoting: MikeyVC97

By next offseason, the rebuild will be well underway and the Hawks will be very much in contention especially if Matthews inks with the Hawks. This is a playoff team with him on it.

I strongly disagree, but that's alright. I think Chicago has many years before the rebuild is over. They got lucky with Bedard but still this isn't a playoffs team even with Bedard and Matthews on it.

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Aug. 17, 2023 at 9:56 a.m.

BankersBox

Joined: Feb. 2019

Posts: 457

Likes: 316

Ethan Bear contract is interesting.

There should be someone better, or equivalent to him that doesnt cost 5 x 4.

In a perfect world one of the other LD prospects figures out how to play on the Right side. Allen, Del Mastro? Rinzel probably wont be ready.. I dont know much about Taige Harding but at 6'7 and 240lbs he has the body to be a bottom pair shut down guy.

Aug. 17, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

Subbanator7667

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Joined: Jul. 2017

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Likes: 3,410

If this were to happen Chicago would be praying the cap has those big increases coming. Bedard may very well be a +10 million contract guy by the end of his ELC. Then add on all the young elite players that will want to get paid along beside him and trouble would be in the horizon

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