add smtg to the carolina trade and they accent maybe

Sure. How about a 2021 3rd?

Doesn't the trade put Carolina over the cap???

No, it does not, at least with a 21-man roster. I explain it here: https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2131746

I like that idea actually, but doesn't that only save you about 1.9 in cap? Is that really worth a first?

The first year. The major savings is in the 2nd year. Vegas only needs to get under the cap without dealing their best players. As shown here, with this deal, Vegas would still be under even with 22 men. Also, a 3rd is coming back, so it's basically the cap version of the Goodrow deal.

reimer might be making only 800k but Nilsson is slated to go on LTIR so its even cheaper for us to keep him. Out goalie tandem is set

By how much, though? When Nilsson is ready to return, Melnyk is going to have to pay him.

probably the year, hes been concussed since last season and is still having symptoms now. Especially in a shortened season ill bet hes there for the year if not almost all of it

Sens are a weird-a** franchise because of Melnyk being a miserly idiot LMAO, but it did sound like Nilsson wanted to eventually play this season, so I was just asking.

How is this melnyks fault? That has to be some of the laziest analysis ive seen. Nilsson has had multiple concusions over his carrer and had a brutal one last season, he probably wont be healty enough to contribute meaningfully so hes probably just going to stay on LTIR.

No, I didn't say Melnyk caused Nilsson's injury. I said that under his rule, making the team better has generally taken a backseat to penny-pinching and barely eke-ing it out to the cap floor. Like trading Zibanejad because they didn't want to pay his signing bonus, or trading Ceci for Zaitsev because Ceci's QO was more expensive than Zaitsev's post-bonus salary that year. It just seems like a miserable existence even with all of the young talent that you guys are about to receive.

yeah thats how small market teams work, same in every sport. Maybe doesnt take a backseat but the small market teams get less revenue which = less spending. Especially when the owner isint loaded to begin with

There are small markets out there in the NHL that happily spend to contend. See Carolina and Winnipeg for an example. Giannis just got his supermax yesterday with Milwaukee, of all teams.

carolina and winnipeg are deffo bigger markets than ottawa though, honestly next to the charlotte hornets i think the sens have the smallest market in pro sports

Charlotte isn't a small market LOL, their owner is just incompetent. Milwaukee is a similar-sized market to Charlotte and they are huge spenders. Winnipeg IIRC is technically a smaller market than Ottawa.

the population of the city is not what determines the sports market. It helps visualize it but considering Ottawa is an hour from Montreal and 2 hours from Toronto, two of the biggest and most storied franchises in the NHL is certainly helps take away from the potential fanbase. You also cant compare NBA spending to NHL spending because the league revenues are massively different.