dying for this to happen, we’re one of the few suitors still in the hunt that can make the cap work, especially now that our backup only costs league min. Minny and LA are out which helps (minny spent their money and have the buyout hits next year, with fiala/kaprizov unsigned still, LA signed danault)

Vegas is also out now too, I wouldn't say Minny's out though, they are still working with 22M currently and have 9M coming off the books next year which in essence negates the loss of 8M from the buyouts

I guess Minny could make it work if it involves Fiala, otherwise I’m not sure how they do it, they still need to bring in a couple D I think, and Fiala+Kaprizov could easily come in north of 15mil combined. Vegas I never count out because I think they’re cold-blooded enough to trade like Marchessault and Smith at the drop of a hat to make it work lol

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Yeah thats fair, I forgot that Kirill was looking for like 10M and Fiala probably 5 or 6. I think they can both easily eat up 15M also. Even that still only puts them at 17/23 players. They would pretty much have to send Fiala back which isn't that great for either team as it makes Minny's offense less relevant and also takes away from the quality of futures Buffalo would want