Quoting: AFOX10900
Nah, Addison won't be ready, POJ and Marino will be before him, but depth d men aren't the issue, we have Ruhwedel, Riikola, Trotman POJ, and Marino, it's losing Schultz will leave a void in the top 4 that nobody is ready to fill yet, plus we have to resign Galch, probably around 6 (leaving us with 14 mil) let's say 6 for Murray as well (8 mil) 3 each for Kahun and McCann (2 mil) someone to fill Schultz's spot (assuming it's like an ELC, 1 mil) plus filling out HS's and such uses the rest of that, and leaves Simon and MP (who's gonna want to get paid) left unsigned... Say rust goes, but then you need to find someone to replace him... That's at least another mil gone probably... It's not looking good (plz trade Horny/JJ)
What makes you think Addison isn’t going to be ready by next season? And like I said, the goal is that JJ has a good season. They can get rid of that cap hit. If Marino is ready next year, boom Gudbranson is gone too. If POJ is also ready next year, then they are set on D. Blueger will be ready to be 3 C which makes Rust or Bjugs easily tradable. Either trade Bjugs or trade rust and move Bjugs to RW. Bjorkqvist will be for sure ready by next year. Simon will be cheap.
The pens have roughly 20 million in cap space next year.
If they do what is expected then...
Trade JJ, Bjugstad, Gudbranson adds 11.35 million to that.
Galchenyuk at 6.5 million
Petterson at 4.5 million
McCann at 3.5 million
Kahun at 3.5 million
Murray at 7 million
Simon at 2 million
That’s only 27 million of the 31.350 million in cap space.
Addison at 925k
Riikola at 925k
POJ at 925k
Marino at 925k
Bjorkqvist at 925k
That puts them at roughly 30.5 million of the 31.35 million in cap space. And that’s on the high end of contracts for those players.
McCann-Crosby-Guentzel
Galchenyuk-Malkin-Hornqvist
Tanev-Kahun-Rust
ZAR-Blueger-Simon
A. Johnson
Dumoulin-Letang
Petterson-Addison
POJ-Marino
Ruhwedel
Murray
DeSmith