Out of the the box .. Colorado gets 2 Cup vets on manageable contracts and has alor of cap space .. Girard resigns next year with Point 2nd deal as Stamkos is traded
Paquette is expendable, Stephens and Volkov could replace him at half the cost. Maroon is likely not a threat to leave (assuming we offer him) since he's not getting any younger or thinner. Killorn we all love, but his M-NTC compared to everyone else's full NTC makes him the easiest decent salary earner to move.
Paquette is expendable, Stephens and Volkov could replace him at half the cost. Maroon is likely not a threat to leave (assuming we offer him) since he's not getting any younger or thinner. Killorn we all love, but his M-NTC compared to everyone else's full NTC makes him the easiest decent salary earner to move.
Don't think you getting it .. Stephens and Volkov are not tough players.. Paquette led forwards.in hits.. by a mile .. and played PK .. Maroon will be in contending city #3 next year .. Colorado or Vancouver is my bet .. Tampa has no Maroon replacement.. Killorn is gritty scorer who played #1 PP .. he led team in goals until Tyler Johnson replaced SfMkod on 2nd line .. but again all 3 of these guys Tampa does NOT have true replacements for .. and you saw what happened last year...would hate to go back to 'whimp city" .. ideally keep Killorn and Paquette and trade Tyler and Gourde ..
Girard is signed for the next 7 years, such an easy pass on a ridiculous trade. TBL would have been playing COL in the Cup finals if they had any injury luck. I mean for FFS they lost 4 games to DAL where every game they had sub .860 goal tending. COL will help TBL a little w/cap issues but they are taking this monstrosity of contracts.