No, offer sheet Sergachev if you want him, you will get him for less. It's unlikely with only ~$3-4M cap space and when you have Ritchie, Wagner, Moore and Miller.

Tampa declines that trade

Do they though? That’s more than they would get with an offer sheet. Significantly.

Can't see tampa helping boston, if they move serg it will be to get them cap space and not to a division rival.

Wow that a big contract for Sergachev. And I think the 1st round pick is too much with Vaakanainen and J.Lauko. I think the top D prospect and Lauko would do it.

Even though I don’t think TB has any plans on trading Sergachev or Cirelli. Everything I read says they are prepared to even trade 1st round picks to trade TJ and Killorn. And even get rid of Palat or Gourde if need be. I think they have every intention of signing Cirelli(100%) and Sergachev. If anything I could see them maybe trading Cernak. But I highly doubt that too.

One of them Is gonna have to be a 2 year bridge contract. But I think 2 out of 3 will be long term 4-6 year contracts. Especially Cirelli. He’s gonna sign for 5M-5.5M for 5 year I bet. I can see Sergachev getting 4-5 years at 4M-4.5M. And then Cernak will be the 2 year bridge contract for 2.8M-3.2M for 2 years.

And that just requires a TJ and killorn trade. Or TJ and Gourde trade. And give up a 1st round pick(which will be a late 1st round pick) and then a 3rd and 5th round pick trading Killorn or Gourde.

Not that easy though when Johnson, Gourde, Palat have full NMC'S, Killorn has a 16 team no trade list and there's very little cap space left in the league.

I assume they've got it figured out but who knows what happens, I won't be surprised if Stamkos is on LTIR to start the year, TJ is demoted to Syracuse and the RFA'S sign team friendly bridge deals.

Ya, I agree..I just don’t know how that would work. You can’t put a player on LTIR till the 1st game of the season.

So they could sign the RFA’s. Send McDonough and TJ down for the 1st game (and hope someone claims him on waivers, cause that would solve a lot of problems.lol). But McDonough would clear waivers with that contract and that term too. But McDoungh and TJ dont actually report though. Just sit in the press box for 1 game. Just to get under the salary cap for the 1st game. Play the 1st game with a 20-21 man roster. Put Stamkos on LTIR. Bring McDoungh and TJ back up for game 2 and be under the salary cap with Stamkos on the LTIR.

Yeah. Sergachev isn’t signing an offer sheet with Boston. If Boston really wants Sergachev, they will have to give up a lot.

Would it even take that much?

Couldn't they just demote TJ, LTIR Stamkos and sign the three RFA'S all on day one of the regular season?

All depends on what they sign for and how much over the cap they would be. They have to be cap compliant by game 1 of the regular season. So if they sign all 3 of them for 10M total. And have 2M in cap space right now. They would need to bury 8M in salary in the minors until they were able to put Stamkos on the LTIR.

I’m not super sure how that works though man. I know u can’t put a player on LTIR until game 1 of the regular season. Pens are dealing with that with ZAR and the 1M more in cap space they will get come game1. And I know u also have to be cap compliant by game 1 of the regular season. But there is no limit to how small your roster size can be. You can just dress 18 players if u want to game 1 and put 3 players on LTIR and then game two bring up the 4 players to dress a normal 21-22 man roster and be cap compliant by putting those players on LTIR. And getting that cap space from that.. But I’m not 100% sure on all the details about how it works. I know for sure, you can’t get Stamkos cap room Until game 1 though.

Why not?

Sending TJ doesn’t take his whole cap hit off the books (at least according to CF) and placing Stamkos on LTIR only buys you a minimum of 10 games of relief. You still have to account for him when he comes back. Yzerman and Brisbois backed themselves into a corner with all of the NTCs. Yes, they won a cup so it was worth it, but they can’t get out by just trading Johnson or Killorn.

They have 2.8M in cap space right now. They said they were prepared to trade assets such a 1st round pick to move TJ or Killorn. They trade TJ and a 1st. As long as he waves his NTC(that’s gonna be the hard part, but I don’t see why he’d want to come back and just go to Seattle next year anyways). That clears 5M. Trade Killorn or Gourde. And a 3rd and a 5th. That’s another 4.5M with Killorn or 5.1M with Gourde.

Let’s just say Killorn and TJ. That’s 12.3M total with the 2.8M in cap room they have now.

Cirelli 5 years for 30M. 6M per
Serchachev for 5 years for 21M, that’s 4.2M per
And Cernak a bridge contract for 2 years for 4.5M, that’s 2.25M per

That does it right there and if u move Gourde instead of Killron, you can add another 600k. So Cernak can get 2.8M per. If you trade Palat instead of Killron it’s another 800K more. You can give Cernak 3M per.

Yes, you have to get 2 of them to waive there NTC. But again, I don’t see why they would want to come back into a locker room where they put them on waivers and tried to give them away. I’d be willing to bet a lot of money, that Cirelli and Sergachev get signed. No way they trade their rights. I can see maybe Cernak, but I doubt that too. Everything out of TB says they are prepared to trade draft assets to get players traded. Including a 1st round pick.

Brisbois should het GM of the year on day 1 if he gets rid of Johnson and Gourde without keeping salary and gets Segachev to sign that deal. Two years at 4.2 is doable, but to give up UFA years at below market value would be a huge mistake. I completely agree that Cirelli and Sergachev are the priority, but I think that if it was easy as just throwing draft picks at teams it would’ve happened by now. There’s real dollars to consider as well with teams like Detroit and New Jersey that have the cap room to take a full contract. Why take the full load on a bad contract if you can’t predict your revenue for the next season and a half?

This for me is the most fascinating point of the offseason. There’s half the league just waiting around like hyenas watching to see if the lion blinks.

I am certain that both Cirelli and Sergachev sign for a minimum of $5.5 million per regardless of term.