Orpik for Schenn is great salary cap math, now that the Caps have two fill-ins at left D who almost add up to Orpik's plus Djoos' minutes.. except that they don't quite get there, and the Caps are fine at right D Adding a fourth is fine, because I can't think of any current Capital who was drafted in the fourth round by the Capitals. Maybe one of their goalies? But they tend to throw away their fourth rounders, so why worry.
Bowey and Connelly is an overpayment for Kane. Bowey's one of the top ten rookie defensemen in points, and he already scores points faster at even strength than Mike Green. Now, Kane is better than Green, but he's not Green better than Connelly. Connelly is on pace for 22 goals this year if he played 82 games, is a year younger, and is under contract next year at 1.5M. Connelly was picked two spots later than Kane in a different draft, hasn't caught on with coaches enough to play a full season Last year he was on pace for 19 goals, but he was a healthy scratch and only got 15. This year he'll end up around the same level, for the same reason. If he were on a bad team like Buffalo where he was relied on as a top six winger, instead of stuck in third and fourth line checking roles, Connelly would have as many points as Kane. Kane has four more even strength goals than Connelly this year, and a bunch more assists, but not Bowey more assists, and those four goals came in a dozen more games played, twice as many minutes per game played, and 5% more offensivezone starts, but only 3% better corsi, and twice as negative a plus/minus
Frankly, Connelly is almost as good as Kane, and is signed cheaply through next year. In a salary cap league, I wouldn't trade them straight up. And then you ask if Buffalo can dump on Gorges' contract?
Gorges plays 14 minutes a night on one of the worst teams in the NHL, and has two points this year, and a relative corsi of -3. His unadjusted corsi is better than his zone starts, which would make him intriguing, but his lack of minutes or offense puts him beind Djoos on this year's Caps.
As a left D in Hershey he will slot behind Ness (who has the same corsi and zone starts, and one point in just eight games, putting him on pace for ten a year in the NHL this year) and Johansen (who is better than Ness but in the AHL because they don't want to rush a top prospect), and at 33 years old he's not a prospect, just a fourmillion dollar road block in front of guys like Siegenthaler. Pass. We've been over this. As someone who has read every Caps AGM in teh last three months and discussed Gorges four times, and agreed wit other Caps and Sabres fans that he didn't fit, even before the Caps added Kempny and Jerabek in front of him, I don't understand why it is being brought up again.
https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/g/gorgejo01.html
If the Sabres want to trade Josh Gorges for Brooks Orpik, they'd better throw in Kane and retain half on each.
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