Karlsson - Hear me out

Created by: Foppa21

Team: 2017-18 Colorado Avalanche

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 18, 2018

Published: Feb. 18, 2018

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

Before you say "no chance in hell Ottawa does that," hear me out.

Say Ottawa wholly embraces the sell mentality going into this deadline. Brassard, gone. Pageau, gone. Hoffman...maybe. Either way, it starts to look like a shell of a team. Factor in Melynk's internal salary cap and you have to think that Karlsson would look long and hard at signing elsewhere once he's a UFA. So say Dorion looks to sell him as well. Now, look to the packages that teams vying for him can offer. Most (if not all) of them are playoff teams that will want him this year (two rounds of playoffs - ideally) and any of those 1st rounders they'll be giving up will be in the 25-31 range. You'd get a decent current NHL player and a future NHL player as well, but it could be better.

Avs can offer all that and more. Barrie fills the hole that Karlsson leaves. Ottawa's 2018/2019 pick is theirs again, and will likely be a lottery pick this year or next, depending on the TDL. Bigras (could be Connor Timmins), future NHL defender. Avs throw in Nashville's 2nd this year, and maybe another pick if he resigns.

I feel like the value is there. Thoughts?

Trades

COL

Karlsson, Erik

OTT

Barrie, Tyson
Bigras, Chris
2018 1st round pick (OTT)
2018 2nd round pick (NSH)

Additional Details:

Bigras/Meloche
Timmins, but 2nd becomes a 3rd/4th

Buyouts

Francois Beauchemin: $4,500,000
Brad Stuart: $0

Retained Salary Transactions

Cody McLeod: $533,333 (40%)

Buried

Joe Colborne: $1,475,000 ($2,500,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2018
2019
2020

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
26	$75,000,000	$67,421,428	$0	$2,240,000	$7,578,572

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Landeskog, Gabriel $5,571,429$5,571,429 LW, C UFA - 4	MacKinnon, Nathan $6,300,000$6,300,000 C UFA - 6	Rantanen, Mikko $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, C UFA - 2
Kerfoot, Alexander $925,000$925,000 ($212,500$212K) LW, C, RW UFA - 2	Jost, Tyson $885,833$885,833 ($662,500$662K) C UFA - 3	Wilson, Colin $3,937,500$3,937,500 C, LW UFA - 2
Comeau, Blake $2,400,000$2,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Söderberg, Carl $4,750,000$4,750,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Nieto, Matt $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Yakupov, Nail $875,000$875,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Compher, J.T. $925,000$925,000 ($75,000$75K) C, RW UFA - 2	Andrighetto, Sven $1,400,000$1,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Bourque, Gabriel $750,000$750,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Kamenev, Vladislav $833,333$833,333 C RFA - 2	Toninato, Dominic $925,000$925,000 C, LW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Karlsson, Erik $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Johnson, Erik $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 6	Varlamov, Semyon $5,900,000$5,900,000 G UFA - 2
Zadorov, Nikita $2,150,000$2,150,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Girard, Samuel $728,333$728,333 ($257,500$258K) LD/RD UFA - 3	Bernier, Jonathan $2,750,000$2,750,000 G UFA - 1
Nemeth, Patrik $945,000$945,000 LD UFA - 1	Barberio, Mark $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 1	Hammond, Andrew $1,350,000$1,350,000 G UFA - 1
Siemens, Duncan $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 1
Lindholm, Anton $717,500$717,500 ($182,500$182K) LD UFA - 2