Quoting: dannibalcorpse
-Trading Ilya Samsonov (.924 SV%, 2.07 GAA in 13 GP) so you can give Erik Kallgren (.896 combined SV% between AHL & NHL this year) 3x$1.6M? Doesn't make a ton of sense to me to begin with, but makes less sense with Chicago being the acquiring team - I don't think they're anywhere near the "giving up picks for veterans" part of the rebuild yet.
-Trading Sandin & Robertson for a pair of 2nds? Not sure what the goal is here as Robertson's cap is able to be buried in the AHL if you don't have a roster spot for him, and Sandin is better & cheaper than Shayne Gostisbehere. Keep Sandin, skip the Ghost signing.
-Clifford isn't worth that to any team, and again: his cap hit is less than $1.15M so he can be buried in the AHL if you don't have a roster spot for him. Worst case someone claims him when you try and pass him through waivers and you get nothing but cap/contract relief - which is still more than he's worth.
-Muzzin's deal is expiring in 23-24, and he's most likely LTIRetired at this point. You've literally spent to the cap in this one, so it's not like clearing LTIR is going to help you build cap space throughout the year; so just keep him and the assets you're giving up, throw him on LTIR, and use that $5.625M in extra space to keep Samsonov maybe? I'd also argue that any team that would be accepting a Muzzin cap dump, if you wanted to go that route, isn't going to quibble about that last $950K so there's no need to retain anything on his deal.
Most of the signings are in the "fine/acceptable" range in terms of salary (maybe a little heavy on the Domi contract) except Evan Rodrigues - he's got 12 points in 23 GP with the Avs after putting up 43 in 82 with the Pens last year, so I think you definitely have to consider him a legit middle-6 guy, and those types of guys don't typically sign as cheap as you have him here (I mean, hell, even with every team capped out he still pulled $2M from the Avs this summer.)
Fair, fair, and more fair
I was hoping someone could clarify if you can keep muzzin on ltir for the whole year again so that clears that up for me I appreciate it, the 950k yeah makes sense but I'd guess every dollar does count I'd suspect buying out a guy worth over 5M looking for help would take a couple teams but in this case it doesn't matter obviously keep him on ltir plus working with the Leafs staff is better than anywhere else as well.
Ok so you don't mind my signings either that's cool.
I don't know if Rodrigues will pull 2M again but I am probably low, I'm always high on Domi I can't help myself I'm think him and Bunting should be very similar.
On samsonov I can't see how a team doesn't offer sheet him and he's not over 3M if Murray has a respectable season I don't know if the Leafs give samsonov 3+M in my opinion if they have kalgren in his young age I think he's a pretty good goalie maybe he's closer to the league minimum not 1.6M regardless of stats he's proven he can be a back-up and stay healthy, I'd think Ilya would want a starter spot in the league somewhere.
As for the trades I just don't want them on the team, I don't see sandin as being as good as ghost, I don't think he's all that good and he's 1.4M his deal doesn't say he's a 3 or 4M dman either but I understand those who like him I think it's a conversation.
Appreciate the response.
Cheers