jesus christ your still over the cap and you have $20 mil of ltir

why would you pick klefbolm?

You do realize you have to be cap compliant when the season starts, BEFORE you put players on LTIR....right?

Mooterus, not gonna say you are wrong, but I just confirmed that LTIR can be used in the offseason (article from "couchguyssports.com" titled "The NHL LTIR Explained." In this case, the use of the LTIR would be to allow the Kraken time to make some trades for prospects and get under the cap by the time these guys get healthy. That includes trading the LTIR assets. How many competitive teams wouldn't want a crack at Price, Bishop, or Klefbom if they were getting close to healthy?

Why Klefbom? He's likely out next year, but he's pretty young and a stud D. I don't think his career is over by a long shot and damn good.

Nathan - you're right. $8m over the cap, but i left everyone on the active roster, but it'll have to get trimmed down to 23 before the season, so some assets will get traded or assigned to minors (or both). Off the top, trading Giordano to a contender for picks would free up nearly $7m. Terasenko is another $7.5 m, Schultz another $4m, Duchene $8m among others. And, I don't think they'd keep both Bishop and Price long term. At least one, or both could get shipped for picks once they show signs of getting healthy.

Just an exercise to show just how many good assets are out there for the Kraken to take. They will be drowning in riches, if they so choose. This doesn't even take into account trades that teams may make, giving them prospects not to take these assets!