Edited Aug. 27, 2022 at 10:10 p.m.
Quoting: KingofRnR
Lucic is from VAN, Nick Foligno is from BUF. Lucic $2.625 >> Foligno $3.80. So Trade Foligno + a 2nd to BUF for Lucic 50% Retained and BOS clears $1.175 mil in Cap Space. Move Out or Send either Clifton & Zboril Down to the Minors and BOS is Cap Compliant. BOS has to go for it this year, it's their last chance before the Tear Down & Rebuild IMO
CGY might consider Lucic 40% Retained + a 2nd for Craig Smith, but you'd still have to pay BUF something to take on Foligno. It'd clear enough Cap Space to maybe sign Evan Rodrigues or certainly Sam Gager and maybe even PK Subban for 1 Season, but not sure if that would necessarily be better than just keeping Smith
Foligno has 16 team NTC and wants to play for a contender. Buffalo is not that.
Another problem. Boston is 2.2 over with a 24 man roster. 3 are injured and will go on IR. Which means calling 2 up to fill a roster. That’s another 1.5. Puts them 4m over. Before anything is done.
Only 6 healthy d men. Both Zboril and Clifton will be in the lineup every night, neither would ever clear waivers even if they wanted to send them down, and they don’t. Had they all been healthy Reilly would have been the one to go. But with Mac and Grizz out to start the year they held onto him. Which created most of this problem. He should have been traded on draft day for mid to late pick. Signed a vet at league minimum to replace him, 2.25m saved. Problem solved.
Rather not trade a 2nd to move Foligno just to bring in Looch. If we use a 2nd to move Foligno we don’t do anything else.
Smith/Reilly for Looch 50% retained/Ruzicka/Valimaki/2nd. It would still not get us under but it would be closer. We’d have cheaper options, downgrades but cheaper, for Smith and Reilly. But you guys don’t want/need Reilly.
1 problem still. We still don’t want Looch and now have both him and Foligno.
Smith for Looch with retention does nothing for us. Gives us almost no cap relief and Smith is more valuable to us.