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Not to mention Johansen and Granlund hitting levels they haven't in years and Jeannot shooting 20% as a rookie. I'm not sold.

That division and conference is far from set, so anything can happen, but I can't be convinced they're anything more than mediocre.

i'd be surprised if any player gets the 20% any time soon. i think you'd have to be in a place where you know the cap is growing at a fast pace.

chara signed for 17.05% of the cap and won a cup on that contract. by the time he won tho the cap had grown quite a bit.

Maybe McDavid on his next deal but yeah you are correct usually on average the most a star player gets is 17% of the teams cap as seen through history

Dallas + Vegas will get those WC spots IMO. Bruce Cassidy is a great regular season coach , can’t see Vegas missing the playoffs. Dallas has one of the best 1st lines in the league and Heiskanen has the potential to be a top 3 defenseman next season.

we should bring back sprong

All true on Dallas, but if you want to talk about regression then Benn-Seguin-Pavelski can't be ignored. They have a mediocre defense after Heiskanen and are turning over their goaltending to a near rookie (albeit a very very good one); but still its a long season+ to expect Oettinger to be a workhorse. I do respect Dallas and think they will be in the mix but think Nashville is better where it counts and deeper.

Vegas has lost their depth and starting goaltending before the season has even started. I don't see them in any way as hands down better than Nashville as of today.

Ovechkin's 13-year contract had a cap percentage of 18.96%, and WSH did win a cup during this contract.

Actually Ovie was 16.8%. Mcdavid was apparently 16.7% got the percentage wrong by .1% which apparently is a big thing lul


https://hockeyanswered.com/who-is-the-highest-paid-player-in-the-nhl/#:~:text=The%20salary%20cap%20in%20the,he%20is%20making%2012.5%20million.

I just used what CF said.

Looked into it we were both right to some degree. As it was 18.96% till a certain point then 16.8% and so on.

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That’s the original cap percentage ( 18.96 ) which I’d argue is the only thing that matters when comping contracts, cap percentage at the time of signing is much better than saying x is making 8mil now so y should get 8mil max forgetting that the cap percentages at time of signing are vastly different

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See the thing is though, they did upgrade without really losing anything off their active roster. So even if Duchene, Jeannot, and co. regress a little, you’re still injecting a full Nino Niederreiter’s worth of production to help make up for that, plus I think Tomasino is a potential breakout candidate. And McDonagh will help the team defense, so as long as Saros doesn’t fall off a cliff they should be solid in terms of preventing goals. I’m not sold they’re better, but I think they’ll likely be at least as good as they were last year, and with the way the rest of the central is trending that might be enough. I think that’s probably gonna be the weakest division next year.

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Blackhawks trading Dach because you get to draft Nazar
Blackhawks trading Dach because he suck at faceoffs


i can't even with this franchise

Has anyone realized how many NTC and NMC the bruins have?
If there was an expansion draft they would be so screwed because they have to protect them. They Could lose Zacha or Carlo. And I'm not sure about Swayman because of the way expansion rules work with young players. But they would have to protect Ullmark.

I’m a Christian but I still respect this from Naz even though I highly disagree with his beliefs. Pretty cool moment.

Yes

ok

I was away for a few days the week before last and completely missed Monahan being traded to the Habs. Literally just found out about it.

Being traded for faceoffs is kind of silly. Like yes if your supposed to be a shutdown 2c then there is an argument but thats not what Dach was drafted to be

Would have been funny if Dach came here as man Malhotra has helped our guys FOW% improve even though JT and Matthews were already pretty solid with that

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comically bad list

Letang at 6 and Seider at 11 are each insane enough for their own article lol.

seider at 11, carlson at 9, and letang at 6 are horrendously bad