Ultimate cap clear for next season for illustration more than realism

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Created by: Anus_McLeod

Team: 2021-22 Colorado Avalanche

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 15, 2021

Published: Mar. 18, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Start clearing cap at the TDL with the Compher trade. The Graves trade continues that, and then Johnson to Anaheim and Donskoi to Seattle completes it. This allows the team to keep Saad and sign even another UFA (I went big here with RNH). Might be a little too much, but figured why not illustrate all of it.

More realistically drop the Johnson trade and the RNH signing and add a guy like Palmieri instead.

Xdraft:

-Saad signs after, so no need to protects him. If no Johnson trade, then he waives.

-Protected forwards: MacKinnon, Landeskog, Rantanen, Kadri, Burakovsky, Nichushkin, Jost

-Protected defensemen: Makar, Girard, Toews

-Exposed: Donskoi, O'Connor, Hajek, MacDonald (Johnson as well if he isn't traded beforehand)

Seattle takes Donskoi.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Newhook, Alex		3	$925,000
Helleson, Drew		3	$925,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Jost, Tyson	2	$1,250,000
Makar, Cale	3	$6,850,000
Timmins, Conor	3	$1,250,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Grubauer, Philipp	5	$5,400,000
Landeskog, Gabriel	7	$7,000,000
Saad, Brandon	4	$5,000,000
Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan	7	$6,850,000

Trades

COL

Johansson, Jonas [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

Staal as well. Happens before this year's TDL. Maybe a third instead of Mutala or Kamenev works. Not sure, but I think they can figure this one out if they want to. Compher would be a good fit in Buffalo (imo).

BUF

Compher, J.T.
Kamenev, Vladislav [Reserve List]
Mutala, Sasha [Reserve List]
Werner, Adam [RFA Rights]

COL

Hájek, Libor [RFA Rights]
2021 3rd round pick (BUF)

Additional Details:

Pre-expansion draft trade. NY can protect Graves, and he would be a good add for them. Avs take a flyer on a young defenseman and also get a pick. Moving Graves allows them to craft their strategy so that Donskoi (and his salary) goes to Seattle.

NYR

Graves, Ryan

COL

2022 3rd round pick (ANA)

Additional Details:

This is the least likely of the bunch (imo), but it clears cap for the Avs and helps them with the expansion draft. Johnson has interests outside of hockey that lie in California, so I think he'd be open to this. Anaheim probably won't though.

ANA

Johnson, Erik ($3,000,000 retained)
Kaut, Martin

COL

Seattle

ANA

Donskoi, Joonas

Retained Salary Transactions

Erik Johnson: $3,000,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$82,808,963	$1,741,463	$2,700,000	-$1,308,963

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Landeskog, Gabriel $7,000,000$7,000,000 LW, C UFA - 8	MacKinnon, Nathan $6,300,000$6,300,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Rantanen, Mikko $9,250,000$9,250,000 RW, C UFA - 4
Newhook, Alex $925,000$925,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan $6,850,000$6,850,000 LW, C UFA - 8	Burakovsky, André $4,900,000$4,900,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Saad, Brandon $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 5	Kadri, Nazem $4,500,000$4,500,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Nichushkin, Valeri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
	Jost, Tyson $1,250,000$1,250,000 C UFA - 2	O'Connor, Logan $725,000$725,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Bowers, Shane $925,000$925,000 ($200,000$200K) C RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Toews, Devon $4,100,000$4,100,000 LD UFA - 3	Makar, Cale $6,850,000$6,850,000 RD UFA - 6	Grubauer, Philipp $5,400,000$5,400,000 G UFA - 6
Girard, Samuel $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 6	Helleson, Drew $925,000$925,000 RD RFA	Francouz, Pavel $2,000,000$2,000,000 G UFA - 1
Byram, Bowen $894,167$894,167 ($2,500,000$2M) LD/RD RFA - 2	Timmins, Conor $1,250,000$1,250,000 RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
MacDonald, Jacob $725,000$725,000 LD/RD UFA - 1
Henry, Nicholas $798,333$798,333 RW UFA - 1

Mar. 18, 2021 at 11:35 a.m.

Fishbrain

Joined: Feb. 2021

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If Colorado Can't trade Erik Johnson then they'll have to protect him from Seattle. So I think Seattle will probably end up taking Devon Toews.

Mar. 18, 2021 at 11:49 a.m.

Anus_McLeod

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Quoting: Fishbrain

If Colorado Can't trade Erik Johnson then they'll have to protect him from Seattle. So I think Seattle will probably end up taking Devon Toews.

You aren't the only one who thinks that, but my personal opinion is that Toews will be protected in any and all scenarios. He leads the team in ice time (slightly ahead of Makar), which tells you something about how valuable they think he is.

I think Johnson waives his NMC since he won't be taken anyway. If he doesn't though, then my opinion is the worst case scenario is they go with 8 skaters and lose Burakovsky.

Mar. 18, 2021 at 12:01 p.m.

Fishbrain

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Quoting: Anus_McLeod

Ya I can see that happening too I just don't know how willing Colorado will be to use the 8 skaters option.

Anus_McLeod liked this.

Mar. 18, 2021 at 4:26 p.m.

Hasbro

Joined: Mar. 2019

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EJ is either waiving or getting bought out.

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