Yes - yes you most certainly are!

You know trading sergachev or cirelli to clear Johnson from the roster actually seems like an option now. Scarifice one guy to get the cap space for the other.

I hate when teams have to trade good players and break up a cup winning team cause of the Cap. Unfortunately that is the world we live in but I would like to see a system where you can have 1 player labeled as franchise player who does not count against the cap. In that type of system though you would only be allowed 2 buyouts on the books at once.

At least you guys won a cup look on the positive when the situation is in the negative

This ALL goes back to Yanni Gourde contract 2 years ago for no reason a 6 year $35M NTC contract for a F'NG 3rd/4th liner .. 27 year old undrafted rookie with ONE year body of work!!!! .. it has cost us JT Miller and Carter Verhegee thus far .. who is next?

I mean, Vasilevskiy and McDonagh contracts don't help either

Vaz is top 3 goalie in NHL and Mc Donough is shut down 1D .. please don't ever put Gourde in a sentence with them ..

Dont forget teams expected abot 3 mil this year and next then mabye 90m after the new tv deal.
That said im really interested in what they do here considering nobody has cap space, my best guess is they trade cerrili sign serg buyout johnson
Or do a bunch of contract swaps of lesser value but bad players

I don't care how good he is, this is a stupid idea to pay a goalie 10M bucks. They couldn't afford these contracts and now they pay the price.

I still see them resigning all RFAs ...it lower AAV and usually 2 to 3 years long which is perfect time with exits of Stamkos McDough Palat etc. and Cap opens up ... "timing" fits for Tampa

What COULD happen .. besides TJ and Gourde who are top 2 trying to be dealt/dumped .. is trade Coleman or Goodrow .. both have 1 more year at 1M to 2M are rock solid and have high value.. it cost us THREE #1s for these 2 but we did win Cup .. if we can't afford to sign them next year .. why not trade them now?!!!!!

Now that I agree with you on .. was hoping for 7 year 56M type of contract but came in 20Mish higher

Yes, you are scr€wed a bit.
Like the spoiled kid near Christmas, you absolutely need to clearly out the toy chest to make room for other toys. You can’t keep them all.
In away, it is a good problem to have.
There are many other kids that have very few nice toys.