Karlsson-trade, Cartler edition.

Created by: Cartler

Team: 2017-18 Tampa Bay Lightning

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 23, 2018

Published: Feb. 23, 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

I guess I have to explain this trade.

What Tampa gets is obvious, they get Karlsson.
The talk is about Sergachev but I'd rather offer up Cal Foote. I'm only giving Ottawa one first round pick since Ryan is part of the deal, they'll get two second round picks and Erne who still is young enough to develope.

Why Callahan and Coburn in return? Well..
It's basically Ryan vs. Callahan/Coburn.
Coburn have one year left and can have some value on the trade market this summer. They'll retain salary and get a second round pick for him.
Now he's gone so it's Ryan and Callahan.
Ryan have 4 years left after this season. 7,250 in cap and 7,5 in salary for four years. That's 30 million dollars in salary.
Callahan have 2 years left with 5,8 in cap hit BUT!! He "only" have 4,7 in salary. That's 9,4 million dollar.
So what does the Sens get.. they get out of paying 20 million dollars in salary and THAT makes sense for the Sens owner.
If they buyout Callahan he'll only cost them 6,3 million over four years (altough they might keep him for next season at least).

I like Sustr and I don't think they'll trade him (because the management still have members who like the big slow stay-at-home type of D) but I'm going to here. ONLY for salary reason, I want to improve my fourth line. NJD can use some beef on their D so I'll trade him there and flip what I get.

I looked at Cullen, he's won two straight SC.
I looked at Desharnais, Rangers are selling.
I looked at Letestu, but the salary didn't fit.

The experience of winning two cups and the 1m salary, plus that he knows Kunitz from Pens, makes the difference for me in favor for Cullen.

Free Agent Signings

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Foote, Cal		3	$925,000

Trades

TBL

Karlsson, Erik
Ryan, Bobby
2018 4th round pick (OTT)

OTT

Foote, Cal
Callahan, Ryan
Coburn, Braydon
Erne, Adam
2018 1st round pick (TBL)
2018 2nd round pick (TBL)
2019 2nd round pick (TBL)

TBL

2018 4th round pick (NJD)
2019 3rd round pick (ANA)

NJD

Sustr, Andrej

TBL

Cullen, Matt

MIN

2018 4th round pick (NJD)

Buyouts

Matthew Carle: $1,833,333
Vincent Lecavalier: $0

Buried

Louis Domingue: $25,000 ($1,050,000)
Erik Condra: $225,000 ($1,250,000)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$75,000,000	$74,343,333	$0	$2,807,500	$656,667

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Namestnikov, Vladislav $1,937,500$1,937,500 LW, RW, C UFA - 1	Stamkos, Steven $8,500,000$8,500,000 LW, C NMC UFA - 7	Kucherov, Nikita $4,766,667$4,766,667 RW UFA - 2
Palat, Ondrej $5,300,000$5,300,000 LW, RW UFA - 5	Point, Brayden $686,667$686,667 ($257,500$258K) C, RW UFA - 2	Johnson, Tyler $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, C, LW UFA - 7
Killorn, Alex $4,450,000$4,450,000 RW, LW NTC UFA - 6	Gourde, Yanni $1,000,000$1,000,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 2	Ryan, Bobby $7,250,000$7,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 5
Kunitz, Chris $2,000,000$2,000,000 ($1,000,000$1M) RW, LW NTC UFA - 1	Cullen, Matt $1,000,000$1,000,000 ($700,000$700K) C, LW UFA - 1	Paquette, Cédric $812,500$812,500 C, LW, RW UFA - 1
Conacher, Cory $650,000$650,000 LW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Hedman, Victor $7,875,000$7,875,000 LD NMC UFA - 8	Karlsson, Erik $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Vasilevskiy, Andrei $3,500,000$3,500,000 G UFA - 3
Sergachev, Mikhail $894,166$894,166 ($850,000$850K) LD/RD UFA - 3	Strålman, Anton $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 2	Budaj, Peter $1,025,000$1,025,000 G UFA - 2
Dotchin, Jake $812,500$812,500 RD UFA - 2	Girardi, Dan $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD NTC UFA - 2
Koekkoek, Slater $800,000$800,000 LD/RD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Feb. 23, 2018 at 3:05 p.m.

Jiannuccilli

Joined: Aug. 2016

Posts: 1,314

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No way Ottawa takes Callahan, their main goal is dumping Ryan’s salary. Acquiring Callahan in return would set them back to square 1, buyout or not.

With Coburn having 1 year left he’ll have no value over the summer without a contract. Since the sens aren’t trying to win this year, it’ll basically be like they never even had him if they let him go to free agency for nothing. Flipping him for a draft pick wouldn’t make sense either, they could get like a 3rd for him. Even then they won’t risk giving him a bad contract.

Erne’s window is closing. He’s been hovering between a top 9 AHL forward and fringe NHLer for 5 years now. He doesn’t have that much potential.

Cal Foote is the only decent part of the deal. A first and 2 seconds won’t cut it. It’ll take 2 firsts and a second.

It’ll take something along the lines of Sergachev and multiple picks to get Karlsson. Ottawa would not take multiple cap nightmares that they would have to buy out or flip. They would basically give Karlsson away for nothing if they did that.

Feb. 23, 2018 at 3:15 p.m.

Cartler

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 240

Likes: 19

Quoting: Jiannuccilli

What part of the "Saving 20-25m in salary" part was not clear to you? That's a LOT of money!
Adding that Coburn can have value for a high third (consider if Arizona decides to sell Hjalmarsson now, they can add Coburn for their third rounder).
Callahan is for two years (if they don't buy him out) and during those two years the team developes so it wont screw anything up.

Just because you don't understand the trade, it doesn't make it a bad trade.

Feb. 23, 2018 at 3:22 p.m.

Jiannuccilli

Joined: Aug. 2016

Posts: 1,314

Likes: 258

Quoting: Cartler

What I don’t understand is why the sens would take 2 players that they would just flip/buyout anyways. The trade would essentially just be Karlsson and Ryan for Cal Foote and 3 picks, which is laughable. When struggling teams trade star players, they want youth and a plethora of picks. Not old players with bad contracts that they would have to release anyways.

Feb. 23, 2018 at 3:38 p.m.

Cartler

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 240

Likes: 19

Quoting: Jiannuccilli

Foote could be a stud and I can easily attach a condition to the 2019 2nd making it a first if the team reach SC-finals.
But what you still don't get is that the sens owner is known to be very cheap so if he get the possibility to save 20+ million dollars he'll take it.

Players to flip is valuable, they got Cole today. Erne can still become a productive middle 6 winger and gives them option to trade Smith. You have to look at a big trade like this from many angles.

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