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Created by: macca2119

Team: 2020-21 Colorado Avalanche

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 9, 2020

Published: Sep. 25, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Six total moves feels like a lot, but THIS feels like a realistic SC contender.

Depth throughout, two goalies to carry through what looks like a really tough season (lots of back to back / 3 in 4 nights).

Hall at 9M plus does not feel realistic. Money can be spent shoring up gaps. Top 6 W, 3C and PK 4th liner, all upgrades on current roster. I Love Haula for 3c and Fast for bottom six. Not totally sold on Tafolli, but 2nd liners are slim in FA and in trade (unless you do Zadorov for Palmeri).

I Am sure Arizona fans will not like that trade, but no one else can offer up a G and cost savings. The 2nd + Jost feels like the right value for a G in a goalie rich environment.

Also noted: Kaut might play in Czech League all year. Might move up Bowers or O'Connor. Also dont expect Byram up until next year (until he is traded for Ejhlers :) )

Finally, this leaves 21M (not including what they lose to expansion which will be at least $2.5M based on current protection list) to resign Gabe (7.5M), Makar (3x$8.5...he's gonna get that new cap bump), bring up Byram (900K - take Cole's spot), Bowers (900k - take PEB's spot) and pay Timmons (1.5M) and a G (1-2M)...so cap is ok for a bit

OK let the beatings begin.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Burakovsky, André	4	$5,250,000
Graves, Ryan	3	$3,000,000
Jost, Tyson	1	$1,500,000
Miska, Hunter	1	$725,000
Nichushkin, Valeri	2	$2,250,000
O'Connor, Logan	2	$1,000,000
Zadorov, Nikita	2	$4,250,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Haula, Erik	3	$3,500,000
Fast, Jesper	2	$2,500,000
Toffoli, Tyler	4	$5,500,000
Sbisa, Luca	1	$850,000

Trades

COL

Kuemper, Darcy

Additional Details:

Arizona gets to cut $2.5M in salary, gets a younger cost controlled asset to play 3C and a very low cost borderline 1G.

ARI

Francouz, Pavel ($1,000,000 retained)
Jost, Tyson
2021 2nd round pick (COL)

Additional Details:

Avalanche sweeten by retaining max salary on Frankie. 2nd becomes 1st if Avalanche make it to SCF

COL

2021 2nd round pick (NYI)
2021 3rd round pick (ARI)

Additional Details:

NJ has a big need for a seasoned D man, and get to defer to trade costs to next year

NJD

Zadorov, Nikita

Additional Details:

Avalanche finally move on from big Z, sending him east to only be seen 2x's are year.

COL

2020 2nd round pick (DAL)
2020 3rd round pick (WPG)

Additional Details:

OTT has a TON of cap space, needs for 3C, mid-6 W.

OTT

Additional Details:

COL does not get a huge return, but free's up space to sign a true 3C (sorry JT ain't it)

Retained Salary Transactions

Pavel Francouz: $1,000,000 (50%)

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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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$79,073,928	$0	$2,925,000	$2,426,072

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Burakovsky, André $5,250,000$5,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	MacKinnon, Nathan $6,300,000$6,300,000 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Rantanen, Mikko $9,250,000$9,250,000 RW, C UFA - 5
Landeskog, Gabriel $5,571,429$5,571,429 LW, C M-NTC UFA - 1	Kadri, Nazem $4,500,000$4,500,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Toffoli, Tyler $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
	Haula, Erik $3,500,000$3,500,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Kaut, Martin $863,333$863,333 ($425,000$425K) RW RFA - 3
Nichushkin, Valeri $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Bellemare, Pierre-Édouard $1,800,000$1,800,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Fast, Jesper $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW UFA - 3
Calvert, Matt $2,850,000$2,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD UFA - 3	Makar, Cale $880,833$880,833 ($2,500,000$2M) RD UFA - 1	Kuemper, Darcy $3,500,000$3,500,000 G UFA - 2
Girard, Samuel $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 7	Johnson, Erik $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Grubauer, Philipp $3,333,333$3,333,333 G UFA - 1
	Timmins, Conor $925,000$925,000 RD RFA - 1
Cole, Ian $3,450,000$3,450,000 LD/RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
O'Connor, Logan $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Sbisa, Luca $850,000$850,000 LD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Landeskog, G.		MacKinnon, N.		Kadri, N.
	Rantanen, M.		Makar, C.

Power Play 2
Burakovsky, A.		Haula, E.		Toffoli, T.
	Fast, J.		Girard, S.

Penalty Kill 1
	Bellemare, P.	Fast, J.
	Graves, R.	Johnson, E.

Penalty Kill 2
	Haula, E.	Nichushkin, V.
	Cole, I.	Timmins, C.

Sep. 25, 2020 at 4:04 p.m.

sens65

Joined: Mar. 2018

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Who said we need a 3C? We have Tierney

Sep. 25, 2020 at 4:06 p.m.

Alfie11

Joined: Aug. 2020

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A 3C and a middle 6 winger are literally the only 2 things Ottwa doesn’t need lmao

Sep. 25, 2020 at 4:13 p.m.

MMXD

Joined: Mar. 2020

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Arizona won’t take Francouz. They have Hill and Raanta

Sep. 25, 2020 at 4:24 p.m.

JeffW

Joined: May 2017

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I feel like the team would be better if they traded for kessel, preferably with money retained.. and kept everything the same as last year.

These guys were like 5 injuries away from the stanley cup final.

Also you have to look at these arizona and minnesota etc defensive teams and their goalies and look at your team and realize it's not the same

Mike smith in tbl, cgy, edm... just ok
Mike smith in Ari.. all star

Dubnyk in Min... all star
Dubnyk in Edm... garbage

Bryzgalov in Ari.. all star
Bryzgalov in Phi... garbage

Kuemper in ari, and Min... all star
Kuemper in col... major downgrade

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Sep. 25, 2020 at 4:37 p.m.

ArakinSkywalker

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Quoting: JeffW

I was wondering what kessel would look like in our system as well. Pitts had him as depth and he arguably could have won the conn smyth. He's not as flashy as he was 3 years ago but i think he doesn't have a lot of pressure here and we don't play a defensive system like Arizona so he oculd put up atleast 20 goals. At a little retained i think he could work out.

The only way i see us trading for a goalie is at the deadline and that's if franky or grubes isn't having a solid season come that time. They both played solid last year and if they don't get hurt who knows what would have happened.
I don't know if Ottawa would want a 7mil cap hit for 3 more years either that seems steep for a team to take.

Sep. 25, 2020 at 4:50 p.m.

JeffW

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Edited Sep. 25, 2020 at 5:09 p.m.

Quoting: ArakinSkywalker

Oh yeah, I'm all for it... kessel can still score, he'd be on the second line/pp and he'll play 82 games a year.. plus he already has 2 cups.

I also feel like he would be relatively cheap to aquire, Ari got him for galenchuyk (jost) a prospect and a 4th..

I feel like a late 1st and jost maybe a prospect could get the deal done with another 1.2m retained

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