Quoting: Foppa21
I mean, if we're gonna go all in... Then you assume that we let go of Calvert, Bellemare, and Bonino. The expansion draft starts to look ugly unless you can convince EJ to waive his M-NTC, NMC though. If you can't, then you risk losing Girard assuming you protect 7F, 3D, and 1G with the 3D being Pietrangelo, Makar, and EJ.
If you can swing Compher/Graves/Donskoi to Seattle, then you might, MIGHT, have enough for Landy, Makar, and Grubby.
In the Expansion Draft ideally EJ would waive his NMC, but if not we could go the 8 skater route and protect Mackinnon/Landeskog/Rantanen/Kadri + Girard/Makar/Pietrangelo/Johnson, and let Seattle choose between Graves and Burakovsky. Losking Burakovsky would be annoying, but he's far from irreplaceable. Alternatively if Newhook has pulled a Makar by being boss right off the bat in the 2021 playoffs we could promote him to 2C and trade Kadri with 1 year left to UFA, and thereby protect Burakovsky as well.
Whatever happens it's clear that we need to have a plan and some clarity on the EJ situation for the Expansion draft.
Quoting: Wadejos123
Doesn't make sense for the avs long term .People mentioned signing Makar, landy, est. But in 3 years Mckinnon will also need a new deal and there's no reason why he won't ask for Mcdavid money. Makar could ask for 8 mil+ on a long term deal, Landy will get a slight raise. Avs need to save thier cap. If they sign someone it needs to be short term. They already have a really good young roster, just don't mess it up.Timmons also looks really good and there would be no where for him to play
Maybe it's a tricky situation in 2023, but by then we may have won a cup (or two... or three), so it would be worth it 100%. The key is to maintain some flexibility by not handing out impossible NMC's.
Quoting: Bcarlo25
How do you sign makar?
With a pen, on paper.
Seriously though, in this AGM the likes of Calvert, Bellemare, Bonino would be replaced by ELC's (Bowers, Newhook, etc). Someone like Compher/Burakovsky/Graves could get lost to Seattle, saving a big chunk as well. I've done 2021/22 AGM's featuring Pietrangelo many times to show that it works, just go look at my AGM history.