Panthers Still Need to Make Trades

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Created by: hockey101

Team: 2019-20 Florida Panthers

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 3, 2019

Published: Jul. 10, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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The depth chart here shows that the Panthers will need to make a few moves to fit under the cap.

Even by eliminating the players that are listed as depth, they will still need to shed some salary.

Easiest trade victim is Pysyk, but they may need to give away one more player. Malkin, possibly?

Yet, despite the major signings, which are good short-term but painful long-term, there is still a sense that they’re not done yet on making another improvement.

I still would not completely rule out the possibility that Hoffman can be traded. He did great, and he provides much needed offense, but the following factors need to be considered:

1) unlikely to re-sign
2) Panthers requested his no teams trade list prior to trade deadline
3) will he repeat similar goals scored?
4) teams are still in the market for a scorer

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Greco, Anthony	1	$725,000
Hawryluk, Jayce	2	$1,020,000
Hunt, Dryden	1	$910,000
Lammikko, Juho	1	$820,000
Malgin, Denis	1	$800,000
McCoshen, Ian	2	$1,020,000
Montembeault, Samuel	2	$985,000
Weegar, MacKenzie	1	$2,000,000

Buyouts

Scott Darling: $1,233,333

Retained Salary Transactions

Jason Demers: $562,500 (12.5%)

Recapture Fees

Roberto Luongo: $1,092,122

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
28	$81,500,000	$87,125,454	$0	$3,182,500	-$5,625,454

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Huberdeau, Jonathan $5,900,000$5,900,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 4	Barkov, Aleksander $5,900,000$5,900,000 C UFA - 3	Dadonov, Evgeni $4,000,000$4,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
Hoffman, Mike $5,187,500$5,187,500 LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Trocheck, Vincent $4,750,000$4,750,000 C, RW UFA - 3	Connolly, Brett $3,500,000$3,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
Hawryluk, Jayce $1,020,000$1,020,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Borgström, Henrik $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) C RFA - 1	Vatrano, Frank $2,533,333$2,533,333 LW, RW UFA - 3
Hunt, Dryden $910,000$910,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Acciari, Noel $1,666,667$1,666,667 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 3	Malgin, Denis $800,000$800,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Heponiemi, Aleksi $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) LW, C RFA - 3	Lammikko, Juho $820,000$820,000 C, LW UFA	Sceviour, Colton $1,200,000$1,200,000 RW, C UFA - 2
		Tippett, Owen $863,333$863,333 ($500,000$500K) RW, LW UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Yandle, Keith $6,350,000$6,350,000 LD NMC UFA - 4	Ekblad, Aaron $7,500,000$7,500,000 RD UFA - 6	Bobrovsky, Sergei $10,000,000$10,000,000 G NMC UFA - 7
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD UFA - 7	Strålman, Anton $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3
Brown, Joshua $675,000$675,000 RD UFA - 1	Weegar, MacKenzie $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Montembeault, Samuel $985,000$985,000 G UFA - 1
McCoshen, Ian $1,020,000$1,020,000 LD UFA - 1	Pysyk, Mark $2,733,333$2,733,333 RD UFA - 1
Stillman, Riley $773,333$773,333 ($132,500$132K) LD RFA - 2	Keeper, Brady $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RD UFA - 1

Jul. 10, 2019 at 11:11 a.m.

staytru20

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I think Hoffman is probably the most movable asset that would put you under the cap when you remove 5 depth players. Perhaps you could get a player with a lower cap hit to play in the middle six back?

Jul. 10, 2019 at 11:23 a.m.

hockey101

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Hockey101

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Quoting: staytru20

He’s definitely the most valuable. Makes me wonder if the Blue Jackets will phone in. Panthers would be losing 30 goals though and need to replace that with some offense. That’s where they have the prospects to possibly trade for Gusev, even though that is a risk. Possibly get Dzingel on the cheap?

Jul. 10, 2019 at 12:12 p.m.

Kosterjr

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Quoting: hockey101

I think they only trade Hoffman for Defensive help and you young players like Malgin to get Gusev.

Jul. 10, 2019 at 1:25 p.m.

Hockey91

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Quoting: Kosterjr

I think they only trade Hoffman for Defensive help and you young players like Malgin to get Gusev.

Before I was open to trading him if we got panarin bit now I just can’t see them trading him unless they know borgstrom or tippet is ready to make a jump forward. Yes we need d help but I think getting rid of pysyk and possibly sceviour will help the cap issues and trying to find a solid third line LD will benefit more than trading Hoffman. Last years team was just really bad cause of the coaching.

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Jul. 10, 2019 at 4:13 p.m.

hockey101

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Quoting: Kosterjr

I think they only trade Hoffman for Defensive help and you young players like Malgin to get Gusev.

They do, but they also would need to find room. I think the 3rd pair will be fine with Brown and possibly McCoshen, Stillman, or Weegar if he can play LD, or Brown if he can play LD. The second pair will have Matheson playing with either Stralman or Ekblad. If they get defensive help then it would be to replace Matheson, or Ekblad which is unlikely. Yandle is most likely not going anywhere.

We'll see what happens. I think they'll stick with this D group. Pysyk will be given a chance with a new coaching staff. Whoever disappoints or gets outperformed in training camp and pre-season will be traded then.

But I think that there are a few teams out there that missed out on FA scorers and would like to see what Hoffman will cost.

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Jul. 10, 2019 at 4:14 p.m.

hockey101

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Quoting: Hockey91

Yeah. Boughner was likable but that coaching staff had no grip on this team. There was never any accountability and it created an atmosphere that accepted mediocre play.

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