You are the only person on this site who thinks Schenn is as valuable as Foote.

Leaf fans applied similar logic in summer proposing moves for Kerfoot. Final year of deal, only owed $500K from $3.5M salary, useful player that could be flipped at TDL … yada yada yada … can’t go back and check every post, but pretty sure every single Canuckle fan said he was a cap dump and that we’d have to pay to offload him. Thankfully leaf brass kept him but making a long story short - no one is paying you a 3rd for Myers, no matter the contract situation

Yup, they will have to pay to move him even at 50%, in the words of everyone who opposes a Leafs trade on here. No one is doing you any favors

I could see Myers getting Kulikov'd to a cap floor team after the bonus is paid, but that's probably the ceiling. The AAV is just too much to put any sort of positive value on him, even if he's still a somewhat useful player.

All teams can get to the cap floor pretty easily theses days. Just sign Klingberg or some other big name UFA no one else wants with plan to flip at TDL. At least you don’t waste assets trading for big tickets (actual money or cap hit)

Agree - I don't really ever buy the "they'll take him to get to the floor" argument in trades, but if Vancouver was gonna pay Myers' bonus and then ship him to a team like Arizona for FCs, I could easily see the Coyotes doing that. Basically the same as signing him to a 1x$6M AAV with only a $1M salary - I can hear Bill Zito drooling from here over that type of cap hit:dollars paid ratio.

Didn't Kulikov make less than 3 million though?

Yeah, Myers' cap hit is way bigger, but I would argue he's a slightly better player than Kulikov. Again, to circle back to the Coyotes, I think that the $1M salary:$6M cap hit is gonna be attractive to them, and I could see them treating it similarly to signing a dude for 1X$6M in UFA. They've got a ton of young D prospects (Moser, Soderstrom, Lamoroeux, Kolyachonok) that might be on the team next year so having a vet like Myers wouldn't hurt.

Myers' buyout is also pretty terrible, so I could see a situation where the Canucks retain the $3M dead cap (cheaper than his $5.3M buyout) and send Myers to Arizona for half off, and then the Coyotes could shop him at the deadline as a $1.5M depth addition.

Again, a super specific set of conditions in this hypothetical, which means it's more likely that Vancouver just rides out his deal.

Leafs have no leverage in any trade, they are at the 50 contract slot and have 0 cap space. The Canucks do have cap space and aren't on a 50 contract slot

And? Waive a guy and we are fine. You just don't get it ever

waive who tho

Unlike some teams, the Leafs have a lot of good players they would lose if they hit the waiver wire. Malgin would be done in a second. So would Engvall. That's two guys without even thinking about it. Being at 50 contracts doesn't hurt you the way people want it to. Much like the Leafs being right to the cap. They don't have bad contracts, literally everyone on the team has value. We are lucky that we don't have guys like Myers making triple what he should. Being against the cap and having a bad contract like Myers takes away leverage. Not having a good player like Kerfoot who likely would get 5 million on the open market making 3.5.

ok there lol Mr. We Dont have any bad contracts

We don't. And you think Myers has value. So obviously your opinion and reality are very far off.

yeah what people dont realize is that owners actually do care about how much money they spend so if you are a budget team and can get a 6mil cap hit for 1mil in cash that is going to be worth something to the person who signs the checks.

flames wont do that