Grierless Sharks Fan
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As a Sharks fan, this is a serious concern of mine. If Jumbo doesn't resign, that leaves 5m for the Sharks to possible give Karlsson 4.5m of to get him to 11m. I heard part of the OTT contract they offered he didn't like was not enough signing bonus compensation. The Sharks owner is loaded, but I'm not sure how he feels about signing bonuses.
There is still the concern of signing Pavelski, Meier, Labanc, and others.
The reality is, DW often gets players on fairly good deals, but he has a lot of money locked up right now and less flexibility. However, if the cap increases to say 82m and we offload Dillon and/or Braun I think we could potentially be okay.