Quoting: Laudan
No way you will be able to resign Myers next year cause of Cap....neither Gardiner.....so blank shot here
Yeah, it is unlikely we get both but we could squeeze in Gardiner, it would be for one year until Marleau comes off and then we should be okay again. We gain 4.5 million if we replace Myers with Liljegren, plus if you take into account the 4.05 we are paying Gardiner, the 1.3 million going to Carrick, the 5 million going to the RFAs (Kapenen, Johnsson,Marner,Matthews and Lindholm), the cap space currently of 7.5 million plus an increase in cap space of about 3.5 million, it would give us about 26 million. We can then either Robidas island Marleau or trade him to free up another 6 million giving us roughly 32 million.
Assuming:
Matthews-11 mil/year
Marner- 7.5 mil/year
kapenen and Johnsson- 2.5 mil/year
Lindholm- 750,000 k/year
we would still have 7.75 million to sign Gardiner and mediocre LW like Ennis for 650,000k. I think Gardiner at 5 years for 5.5-6 million would be fair. Lines would be:
Hyman-Tavares-Marner
Grundstrom-Matthews-Nylander
Johnsson-Kadri-Kapenen
UFA-Lindholm-Brown
Rielly-Hamonic
Gardiner-Zaitsev
Dermott-Liljegren
Anderson
Sparks
with about a million to spare