Quoting: Lord_Simek
My only question is how does Dallas sign Petro yet re-sign Heiskanen next year. Miro is going to get a HUGE deal. Also Hintz will get more than 3mil and way more than 2 years.
Personally, I'm not sure I'd be willing to give a 7-year deal to a 30-year old defenseman. He makes the team better now, sure. But in 4 years how much are we going to hate that contract? That being said, if something like this were to happen, Lindell is 100% gone. If the Stars don't trade him, he's instantly the choice for Seattle during the expansion draft next offseason. Add his $5.8M to the money from Cogliano, Comeau, Johns, and Oleksiak and Dallas has plenty of cap space to give Heiskanen his big contract.
Also, between guys like Bayreuther, Heatherington, Caamano, Gardner, Robertson, Harley, L'Esperance, etc., Dallas has plenty of extremely cheap NHL caliber players to fill out the bottom half of their lineup during the 2021-2022 season.
In regards to Hintz, he's not getting more than a bridge contract this offseason. He's done well for Dallas, sure...but he hasn't been the kind of high-end player that immediately jumps from his ELC to his big contract. Especially with Coronavirus shortening the season, and implicating the cap for next season, he and Gurianov are both seeing 2-3 year deals. Hintz will make more than Gurianov on his bridge deal, but he's going to realistically see between $3-3.5M while Gurianov will see somewhere in the $2.5-2.75M range.
And all of this is taking into account that there is no salary cap increase this offseason OR next offseason.