taking a crack at nexts years lineup

Forums/Armchair-GM

Page 1 of 1

Created by: SnipeRV

Team: 2021-22 Nashville Predators

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 13, 2021

Published: Apr. 13, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Poile opened the door to resigning Granny and even Ekholm during his presser. Definitely could just be posturing so that team morale doesn't get shaken up. We can afford to overpay Granlund in the near term if he is willing to keep the term short. My guess is he wants to stay here.

But let's assume he takes this chance to get rid of a bad Joey contract (because, for a number of reasons, its much more likely he gets rid of Joey instead of Duchene). Its really hard to figure out their plan for the rest of the lineup which is why I have 4 scratches for now. I think we learned this year that depth is really key. Maybe Davies/Jeannot start the year in the AHL and are the first call ups when there is an injury.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Del Gaizo, Marc		3	$925,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Allard, Frédéric	1	$800,000
Davies, Jeremy	1	$800,000
Fabbro, Dante	2	$2,500,000
Jeannot, Tanner	2	$800,000
Olivier, Mathieu	1	$800,000
Pitlick, Rem	1	$800,000
Richard, Anthony	1	$800,000
Saros, Juuse	3	$3,500,000
Tolvanen, Eeli	2	$2,500,000
Craggs, Lukas	1	$800,000
Harpur, Ben	1	$800,000
McCarron, Michael	1	$800,000
Smith, Cole	1	$800,000
Wilkins, Josh	1	$800,000
Healey, Josh	1	$800,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Granlund, Mikael		3	$6,000,000

Trades

NSH

ANA

Additional Details:

EXPANSION DRAFT: Throw in Grimaldi or Janrkrok for them to take Joey. I would much rather give up Duchene but Poile won't do that. Joey would be much more desirable for Seattle so I think its much more likely that he goes instead of Duchene.

Buyouts

Kyle Turris: $2,000,000
Steven Santini: $275,000

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
24	$81,500,000	$70,996,142	$0	$0	$10,503,858

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Forsberg, Filip $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW UFA - 1	Duchene, Matt $8,000,000$8,000,000 RW, C UFA - 5	Arvidsson, Viktor $4,250,000$4,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Tolvanen, Eeli $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW RFA - 3	Granlund, Mikael $6,000,000$6,000,000 C, RW UFA - 4	Kunin, Luke $2,300,000$2,300,000 RW, C RFA - 1
Järnkrok, Calle $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, C, LW UFA - 1		Tomasino, Philip $863,333$863,333 LW, RW RFA - 3
Trenin, Yakov $725,000$725,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Pitlick, Rem $800,000$800,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Olivier, Mathieu $800,000$800,000 RW UFA - 2
	Sissons, Colton $2,857,143$2,857,143 C, RW UFA - 5

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Josi, Roman $9,059,000$9,059,000 LD NMC UFA - 7	Ellis, Ryan $6,250,000$6,250,000 RD UFA - 6	Saros, Juuse $3,500,000$3,500,000 G UFA - 4
Ekholm, Mattias $3,750,000$3,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Fabbro, Dante $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Ingram, Connor $733,333$733,333 G UFA - 2
Benning, Matthew $1,000,000$1,000,000 RD UFA - 1
	Carrier, Alexandre $733,333$733,333 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Borowiecki, Mark $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD UFA - 1
Jeannot, Tanner $800,000$800,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Davies, Jeremy $800,000$800,000 LD UFA - 1
Cousins, Nick $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, C UFA - 1

Apr. 13, 2021 at 10:40 a.m.

GeauxPreds1

Lets go Preds

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 1,858

Likes: 915

I don’t mind keeping granlund but no way would I give him 6 million a year. He’s not producing like a 6 million guy so I’m not giving it to him

villenash and gmgb liked this.

Apr. 13, 2021 at 10:41 a.m.

SevenLeg

Hop on the Slaftrain

Joined: Feb. 2019

Posts: 16,162

Likes: 20,483

Even if Granlund agrees to a 3-year deal, it shouldn't be that much. I wouldn't go over 4.5m

villenash and gmgb liked this.

Apr. 13, 2021 at 10:41 a.m.

villenash

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 10,243

Likes: 7,113

At this point, I'd rather lose Duchene than Johansen. I'm OK if we end up keeping both though. I think a top 9 like this would look pretty good next season:
Tolvanen - Johansen - Arvidsson
Forsberg - Duchene - Tomasino
Jarnkrok - Granlund - Kunin

Some contracts could be adjusted a bit too -- Saros should sign for at least $4m (especially after that Demko contract), and I think a Granlund extension would come in around 3-4 years at $4.5m.

I bet Farrance gets that 3LD spot too -- unless he gets some time in the AHL first.
Josi - Ellis
Ekholm - Carrier
Farrance - Fabbro

gmgb liked this.

Apr. 13, 2021 at 10:50 a.m.

josi4norris

Joined: Aug. 2020

Posts: 290

Likes: 144

I'd like to keep Granlund, but as for the expansion draft, couldn't Seattle just take Jarnkrok or Grimaldi anyway? I would assume we'd go 8 skaters (Forsberg, Arvidsson, Kunin, Josi, Ellis, Ekholm, Fabbro, Carrier/Jarnkrok). I just think that there would need to be more added for them to take one of the $8 million dollar centers. I'd prefer to keep Johansen over Duchene now though.

Apr. 13, 2021 at 10:50 a.m.

gmgb

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 7,589

Likes: 5,184

Quoting: villenash

I wouldn't be surprised to see Farrance get some AHL time. Especially with Benning and Borowiecki still under contract - there's only so many spots in a lineup.

villenash liked this.

Apr. 13, 2021 at 11:17 a.m.

SnipeRV

Thread Starter

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 412

Likes: 126

Everyone that is saying Joey over Duchene... I agree but how do you think it happens? Do you really believe Poile will do that? Will be too much backlash about not being able to bring in big free agents if we ship them out after 2 years.

Apr. 13, 2021 at 11:18 a.m.

SnipeRV

Thread Starter

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 412

Likes: 126

Quoting: GeauxPreds1

I don’t mind keeping granlund but no way would I give him 6 million a year. He’s not producing like a 6 million guy so I’m not giving it to him

Players are anchored to prior contracts. $3.75M was a COVID lowball. I'd be surprised if its below $5M for a 3-4 year deal since he was making $5.75M on his prior deal.

Apr. 13, 2021 at 12:51 p.m.

ZPirtle

Go Preds

Joined: Dec. 2016

Posts: 682

Likes: 229

Quoting: villenash

I love the look of this top 9

villenash liked this.

Apr. 14, 2021 at 8:09 p.m.

GeauxPreds1

Lets go Preds

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 1,858

Likes: 915

Quoting: villenash

Crazy I was about to make a team that said what I want our lines to look like at one point this season and that top 9 is exactly the same as I was gonna put down. Tolvanen looked great with Joey and arvi and having Tomasino and his young energy might spark duchene plus forsberg and duchene have already showed some kind of chemistry.
Defense wise what I would like see is when fully healthy is
Josi-fabbro
Ekholm-carrier
Harpur- ellis
Don’t necessarily look at the pairing as 1st,2nd,3rd pairs because you spread our vets with young players and besides harpur and Ellis we’ve seen the other pairs look very good. And I think Ellis playing with a defensive defenseman like harpur could make his offensive numbers better. Plus you can play all 3 pairs playing pretty even minutes

villenash liked this.

Apr. 15, 2021 at 9:00 a.m.

#10

villenash

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 10,243

Likes: 7,113

Quoting: GeauxPreds1

I’ve thought about splitting the big 3 too — could be a fun idea. I wonder if Benning would play over Harper though.

Page 1 of 1

DISPLAY SETTING

BETTING ODDS

LOCALE

ARCHIVE

CBA

CALCULATORS

FANTASY HOCKEY TOOLS

TOOLS

PLAYERS

WESTERN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

INTERACTIVE FEATURES

Forums/Armchair-GM