So many moving parts and complications…Canes have a much straighter path to EK65 without involving a 3rd team.

A 3rd team retaining for 4 years is a monumental ask.

Ottawa no longer needs your goalie

How do you figure? You have less than 3 mill in cap space.

I think of the Canes as a well run organization, they won't be reaching for Karl.

Cap friendly still has a few AHL contracts and 3 goalies on the list. The Canes actually have 5m in cap space with both Skjei & Pesce on the roster.

Assuming one (if not both) Skjei and Pesce are included…they have space available for a retained EK + depth signings.

Canes have a little over 4 million in cap space. Cap friendly has quite a few of our AHL forward prospects on the main roster from the playoff run. When you factor in the Coghlan Qualifying Offer, we have around 3.5 give or take. My opinion he figures the Canes over Pittsburgh is because the prospect pool that we have compared to the Pens. Also with the signing of Orlov, it all but spells that one if not both of Skeji / Pesce will be traded which would free up more cap space with one traded and in particular if both were traded so we could also make room to bring in a scorer along with EK.

We will have to factor in all 3 goalies for this upcoming season, to be able to take on PK's full cap hit if he was to go down then come back up.

No disagreement from me, but full roster right now has $4.1m in space. 12F / 6D and 3G. Add in Tony D mean less than $1.6m. Pesce ($4m) + Skjei ($5.25m) + Drury (925k) + Turbo ($5.4m) are all tradable assets.

I agree on all those assests, as I traded them in my latest ACGM to bring in EK and a scorer on a short term deal. My hope is that the EK deal would nix the TDA deal. Tomorrow I feel is going to tell a lot.

Bring on TDA too…Double down on strengths and pound offense from the blue line. It’s counterintuitive but you could run 11F/7D as regular format with Slavin and Orlov doubling up with Burns, EK, and TDA. Waves of offense from blue line.

Would moving both for him actually be worth it though? Those are two really good pieces.