Once a Kings Fan Too
Joined: Jun. 2018
Posts: 40,739
Likes: 25,562
Putting aside the bonuses issue, assuming you need to re-sign Matthews ($11M), Marner ($7.5M) and Kapanen ($3M), and those are conservative estimates, that means you will need $19M more than what they are getting now just for those three players alone. Where are you going to get that? Simmonds, McQuaid, Gardiner and Hainsey coming off the books plus the $3M cap raise plus the reduction in Nylander's hit is a total of about $20M. What are you going to use to fill the four missing roster spots, not to mention the possibility of raises to Ozhiganov, Lindholm, Sparks and potentially others?