Just Under the Cap

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Created by: Fogz144

Team: 2023-24 Ottawa Senators

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 2, 2023

Published: Mar. 2, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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It'll be tight. Not sure it'll be easy to convince all of Cat, Pinto, and Brannstrom to sign for a combined 12.1 mil. However, I think all three are well worth keeping around, especially since after 23-24 the cap will hopefully shoot up and Ottawa gets back a good chunk of space from dead cap buyouts and retentions expiring. That extra space should hopefully let them sign Sanderson and maybe add some better depth pieces. Doesn't feel like there'll be space for a more expensive goalie any time soon, so I guess we'll hope that Forsberg says good and Sogaard is somehow cheap-ish.

With the way this roster is signed they'll have a bunch of cheap sub-1 mil 4th-liners they can swap around. For D they'll have to rely on moving their Rookie RFAs up and down, as they won't be cap compliant keeping both a forward and a D up with the team and scratched.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
DeBrincat, Alex	8	$8,500,000
Brännström, Erik	2	$1,250,000
Pinto, Shane	2	$2,350,000
Bernard-Docker, Jacob	2	$1,000,000
Gauthier, Julien	1	$1,000,000
Sokolov, Egor	1	$850,000
Mandolese, Kevin	2	$900,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Lucchini, Jacob		1	$800,000
Hamonic, Travis		1	$1,000,000

Buyouts

Bobby Ryan: $1,833,333
Colin White: $875,000
Michael Del Zotto: $750,000

Retained Salary Transactions

Matt Murray: $1,562,500 (25%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$83,500,000	$83,162,380	$0	$1,850,000	$337,620

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Tkachuk, Brady $8,205,714$8,205,714 LW UFA - 5	Stützle, Tim $8,350,000$8,350,000 C UFA - 8	Giroux, Claude $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, C NMC UFA - 2
DeBrincat, Alex $8,500,000$8,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Norris, Joshua $7,950,000$7,950,000 C UFA - 7	Batherson, Drake $4,975,000$4,975,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
Greig, Ridly $863,333$863,333 C, LW RFA - 2	Pinto, Shane $2,350,000$2,350,000 C RFA - 1	Joseph, Mathieu $2,950,000$2,950,000 LW, RW UFA - 3
Sokolov, Egor $850,000$850,000 LW RFA - 1	Kastelic, Mark $835,000$835,000 C, RW RFA - 2	Gauthier, Julien $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Chabot, Thomas $8,000,000$8,000,000 LD UFA - 5	Zub, Artem $4,600,000$4,600,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 4	Forsberg, Anton $2,750,000$2,750,000 G UFA - 2
Chychrun, Jakob $4,600,000$4,600,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Sanderson, Jake $925,000$925,000 ($1,850,000$2M) LD UFA - 1	Søgaard, Mads $925,000$925,000 G RFA - 1
Brännström, Erik $1,250,000$1,250,000 LD/RD, LW RFA - 1	Hamonic, Travis $1,000,000$1,000,000 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Kelly, Parker $762,500$762,500 LW RFA - 1

Mar. 2, 2023 at 5:57 p.m.

M0LSON

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not sure if cap will be 83.5m it could be higher?

Mar. 2, 2023 at 5:59 p.m.

M0LSON

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JBD is upgrade to Hamonic and no longer waiver exempt once called up(next season)

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Mar. 3, 2023 at 2:40 a.m.

SquidNasty

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I like this. We won't have the room to do anything crazy so this is likely what we're looking at next season. I was also projecting pinto in the 2M range on a bridge deal but id he hits 20 goals and .5 pts/GP that's pretty good leverage. Doubt he clears 3 though.

Hamonic has been somewhat impressive lately and it'd probably take more than that to keep him. 1.8x2 or something probably gets it done.

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Mar. 3, 2023 at 5:50 p.m.

Fogz144

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Quoting: M0LSON

not sure if cap will be 83.5m it could be higher?

Quoting: M0LSON

JBD is upgrade to Hamonic and no longer waiver exempt once called up(next season)

My understanding is the cap will only go up by one mil next year, and then hopefully jumps up a lot more. Saw an article (I think in Forbes) that said it could be as high as 87 mil in 2024-2025, which would give them some significant breathing room.

Good point on JBD. I'd to see what he can do but the way I did these signings they literally can't afford to have him up with the team at the same time as another cheap depth defender. I think Hamonic can be good in a depth role for another year, but we'll see what management does.

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