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sjsharks82
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1. the 2 year bridges that everyne signs are in the realm as I posted. midyear, labanc was a fourth liner in th doghouse. He was big minus on the season and minus in the playoffs. He's shown flashes of brilliance, but the consistency and 200 foot game is still lacking. 2 years 6-7M total is right in line for a "show me" deal. If he has two good years, he'll cash in long term. Meier is similar. He had one big year. 2 yrs, 10M is his show me deal. If he repeats this year 2 more times, then he'll cash in at 7+.
2. Jumbo will resign. Likely he'll resign for whatever is left at the end of the summer. He and dougie will discuss how to create the team and he'll take the max dougie can give him to fit within the roster construction. Might be 3M, might be 800k.
3. kane is as streaky as it gets and defensively porous. 1 goal in the last 19 PO games? from a 30 goal scorer? You gotta be kidding. And he was NOT matched up with other teams' top lines (that was cooch's job). So, he got second pairing Dmen, middle six forwards, and still failed miserably going minus in 10 of the last 18 games. And that's a repeat of last year when he had just one point versus vegas. He disappears and is not defensively good enough to contribute when hes not on the scoresheet. His dumb penalties dont help the team win. I want him gone so bad, but I dont think ill get what I want.
4. Braun is definitely moveable. A dman averaging over 20 mins/gm, playing a shut down role, signed under 4m? Very tradeable. Dillon is too. Melker is only 2M, so while the return will be small, someone will like him as he did pot 12 goals and kills penalties, etc. Dell also is a good vet backup who had some good numbers. someone may bit on him too. The return will be minimal but I dont think salary will need to be retained.
5. Of course you need 23 guys. The roundout of the roster can be league min vets like haley. If they need to shave off a little $$, they might get myers at 6.5, labanc at 3 even, or EK65 at 10.5 (which is still an AAV well over 11 compared to a 7 year deal he could get elsewhere). Dougie can squeeze as needed...