What do they do

Not the case really. Stammer takes 5.5 and you trade Jeannot and Sheary you would be able to bring in decent players

If you replaced Jeannot and sherry with league minimum players you'd still be over the cap

Stammer would have to make 5.5 or less, given that AFP has him making 6.1 and tampa has no state income tax and his family lives there I could see it. JBB seems confident that Stammer will sign, it still doesnt make the mcdonagh trade make sense though.

My point in doing this is to show that a bigger contract needs to be moved. Even if he took less and you slid in under the cap, the team isn't better.

I would move cernak...but sneakily. I'd move sergachev. Both their clauses start July 1

I completely agree on moving sergachev, I thought he was great his first season here and ever since its been a slow decline until this year he was pretty much unusable before the injury(he was ok in the playoffs). He makes way too much but just like a few other players on the lightning, he just started a massive contract. Tampa fans keep moving either cirelli and cernak, I think moving cirelli is quite possibly the dumbest move possible, him and hagel are the only two players that have a positive impact every game, whether they score or not. Cernak is alright, gets the job done, makes slightly too much but if we trade him he would need to be replaced. I would have never gotten mcdonagh, he was awful his last year here and they could have gotten montour, pesce, skeji or any FA for free. At this point the team cant be improved unless they trade sergy, its just trading jeannot, sheary and maybe perbix then resigning stamkos and bringing up some of the prospects.