Weaponizing cap space

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Created by: Kyle_Davidson

Team: 2023-24 Chicago Blackhawks

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 20, 2024

Published: Feb. 20, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

The 26 2nds are valuable for trade pieces when the hawks are transitioning to contention. I wouldn’t mind stacking picks later than 2026 while we are bad, but that is difficult to reflect in the current rules.

Trades

CHI

Johansen, Ryan
2024 4th round pick (COL)
2026 2nd round pick (COL)

Additional Details:

Pure cap dump trade, not thinking to hard about corresponding moves for the AV’s for this to make sense.

COL

Using the Zaitsev trade as a direct comparable, the difference is the pick years being reversed (at least the closer one being a 4th vs 2nd being further away)

CHI

Ceci, Cody
2024 2nd round pick (EDM)

EDM

Similar premise to AV’s trade.

Buyouts

Josh Bailey: $2,666,667
Brett Connolly: $1,166,667
Henrik Borgström: $183,334

Retained Salary Transactions

Jake McCabe: $2,000,000 (50%)

Recapture Fees

Duncan Keith: $1,938,456

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$80,304,290	$0	$5,440,000	$3,195,710

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Foligno, Nick $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 1	Bedard, Connor $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) C RFA - 3	Kurashev, Philipp $2,250,000$2,250,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 2
Johnson, Tyler $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, C, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Dickinson, Jason $2,650,000$2,650,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Beauvillier, Anthony $4,150,000$4,150,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Donato, Ryan $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 2	Johansen, Ryan $4,000,000$4,000,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Raddysh, Taylor $758,333$758,333 RW RFA - 1
Entwistle, Mackenzie $800,000$800,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Blackwell, Colin $1,200,000$1,200,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Anderson, Joey $800,000$800,000 RW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Vlasic, Alex $916,667$916,667 ($850,000$850K) LD UFA - 1	Jones, Seth $9,500,000$9,500,000 RD NMC UFA - 7	Mrázek, Petr $3,800,000$3,800,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Korchinski, Kevin $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) LD RFA - 3	Ceci, Cody $3,250,000$3,250,000 RD UFA - 2	Söderblom, Arvid $962,500$962,500 G RFA - 2
Phillips, Isaak $859,167$859,167 ($32,500$32K) LD RFA - 1	Crevier, Louis $850,833$850,833 ($57,500$58K) RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Tinordi, Jarred $1,250,000$1,250,000 LD UFA - 1	Hall, Taylor $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2
Johnson, Reese $800,000$800,000 RW, C RFA - 1	Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1
Katchouk, Boris $758,333$758,333 LW RFA - 1	Murphy, Connor $4,400,000$4,400,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3
	Athanasiou, Andreas $4,250,000$4,250,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
	Philp, Luke $775,000$775,000 C UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Sanford, Zachary $800,000$800,000 ($0$0$0$0) LW, RW UFA - 1
Megna, Jaycob $762,500$762,500 ($0$0$0$0) LD UFA - 1

Feb. 20 at 12:18 a.m.

Vancity2196

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Both trades would work for next year.

Feb. 20 at 12:19 a.m.

Kyle_Davidson

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Kyle from Chicago

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Quoting: Vancity2196

Both trades would work for next year.

The zaitsev trade happened in season, but if they don’t have corresponding moves to justify them then next season works.

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Feb. 20 at 8:52 a.m.

CD282

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Edmonton is headed to the playoffs. 1. They won't be trading away a top-4 RHD, 2. Ceci is not a cap dump.

Feb. 20 at 9:25 a.m.

Kyle_Davidson

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Kyle from Chicago

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Quoting: CD282

Edmonton is headed to the playoffs. 1. They won't be trading away a top-4 RHD, 2. Ceci is not a cap dump.

To address your concerns, Ceci by the analytics is not a good top 4 RD. 32 thoughts podcast has implied EDM is likely to make a big swing, and similar to the Ekholm trade that may include Ceci leaving as a cap dump.

Feb. 20 at 9:48 a.m.

CD282

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Quoting: Kyle_Davidson

That kind of trade would have Ceci included. Not traded separately. Just like the Barrie-for-Ekholm deal.

In any case, Ceci is not a dump. They'll only move him if a clear upgrade is coming back.

Feb. 20 at 9:59 a.m.

Hawksguy81

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Can't see the Av's or the Oilers paying that much. Hawks should definitely make both deals if offered though.

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