Would you buy out Elvis

Created by: bf_hockey8

Team: 2024-25 Columbus Blue Jackets

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 14, 2024

Published: Mar. 14, 2024

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 would hold off on the buyout at least for another year personally.

Jarvis could be an alternate offer sheet target

Bruins make some sense as an option for Laine, strong culture there and could be a fit to play with Marchand/Coyle, retention brings him to a similar cap hit as Debrusk

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Chinakhov, Yegor	2	$1,000,000
Johnson, Kent	2	$1,000,000
Marchenko, Kirill	7	$5,000,000
Sillinger, Cole	3	$2,500,000
Texier, Alexandre	2	$2,000,000
Nylander, Alexander	1	$1,000,000
Blankenburg, Nick	1	$1,000,000
Raymond, Lucas	5	$8,500,000

Offer Sheets

Offer sheet annual average (AAV) is calculated by dividing the contract value by the lower of: 1. The contract length, or 2. Five years

PLAYER	AAV	COMPENSATION
Raymond, Lucas	$8,500,000	2025 1st round pick 2025 2nd round pick 2025 3rd round pick

Trades

CBJ

Savoie, Matthew
2024 1st round pick (BUF)
2025 2nd round pick (BUF)

BUF

Jenner, Boone

CBJ

2026 3rd round pick (BOS)

Additional Details:

Upgrades to a 2026 2nd if Laine scores 30 goals in 24-25 season

BOS

Laine, Patrik ($3,000,000 retained)

Buyouts

Alexander Wennberg: $891,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Patrik Laine: $3,000,000 (34.48%)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$87,700,000	$77,518,333	$0	$4,200,000	$10,181,667

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Gaudreau, Johnny $9,750,000$9,750,000 LW NMC UFA - 5	Fantilli, Adam $950,000$950,000 ($3,200,000$3M) C RFA - 2	Raymond, Lucas $8,500,000$8,500,000 RW, LW RFA
Chinakhov, Yegor $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, LW RFA	Voronkov, Dmitri $925,000$925,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 1	Marchenko, Kirill $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW RFA
Johnson, Kent $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, C RFA	Sillinger, Cole $2,500,000$2,500,000 C RFA	Nylander, Alexander $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, LW RFA
Texier, Alexandre $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, C, RW RFA	Kuraly, Sean $2,500,000$2,500,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Danforth, Justin $1,100,000$1,100,000 RW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Werenski, Zachary $9,583,333$9,583,333 LD NMC UFA - 4	Jiricek, David $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) RD RFA - 2	Tarasov, Daniil $1,050,000$1,050,000 G RFA - 1
Provorov, Ivan $4,725,000$4,725,000 LD UFA - 1	Severson, Damon $6,250,000$6,250,000 RD NTC UFA - 7	Merzlikins, Elvis $5,400,000$5,400,000 G M-NTC UFA - 3
Blankenburg, Nick $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD/RD UFA	Gudbranson, Erik $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Fix-Wolansky, Trey $775,000$775,000 RW RFA - 1
Olivier, Mathieu $1,100,000$1,100,000 RW UFA - 1
Boqvist, Adam $2,600,000$2,600,000 RD RFA - 1

Top Comments

Mar. 14 at 1:30 p.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 27,963

Likes: 14,617

Respectfully, that is a massive overpayment for Jenner.

We are not doing that

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Mar. 14 at 1:42 p.m.

squashmaple

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Joined: Apr. 2022

Posts: 3,316

Likes: 4,605

No, I would not buy out Elvis. The penalty is the worst in 2026-27 at $2,925,000, when cap space will be extremely critical.

Offer sheets do not happen, and if they did, Raymond is a poor choice at that cost.

It's a fine offer for Jenner, but what do more futures do for an org who's already in the top three in pools heading into this draft? Cheap, useful, actually good vets like Jenner are more important at this stage than more futures.

Negative chance that Boston would ever entertain acquiring Laine, even for peanuts. He is the polar opposite of every organizational philosophy the Bruins have or have ever had.

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Mar. 14 at 2:00 p.m.

Hynzy57

Joined: Jun. 2023

Posts: 84

Likes: 10

Penguins would quickly jump in and take that Laine trade

Mar. 14 at 2:06 p.m.

Rooney

Go Jets Go

Joined: Mar. 2018

Posts: 5,457

Likes: 4,205

Quite the lopsided Buffalo trade...next to zero chance they consider that one.

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Mar. 14 at 2:11 p.m.

LAkingsfan77777

Joined: Dec. 2021

Posts: 168

Likes: 32

Your not getting Raymond. Detroit would match it

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