My plan for next year

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Created by: Joxu

Team: 2024-25 Florida Panthers

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 26, 2024

Published: Mar. 26, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Plan:

-Trade Knight for someone who can make the roster better and clear some cap (and hopefully get some picks for more options at trade deadline)
-Resign Reinhart to an 8-year deal, OEL and Stolarz on shorter term deals.
-Sign Lundell to a bridge deal and start him at 2C with Tkachuk
-Give Samoskevich the chance in the top 6 alongside great players like Tkachuk and Lundell as that's where he can shine
-Give Sourdif the chance to play in the bottom 6 so that he can hopefully replace Bennett as 3C in 2025-2026.
-Sign Chatfield and give him the chance at bigger minutes on a high-risk high reward deal (would be a very Zito-like move)
-Resign reliable depth pieces like Stenlund, Lomberg and Kulikov

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Lundell, Anton		2	$2,500,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Reinhart, Sam	8	$9,000,000
Chatfield, Jalen	4	$2,700,000
Ekman-Larsson, Oliver	2	$3,200,000
Stolarz, Anthony	2	$2,200,000
Stenlund, Kevin	2	$1,100,000
Lomberg, Ryan	2	$850,000
Kulikov, Dmitry	1	$775,000

Trades

FLA

Benning, Matthew
2025 2nd round pick (SJS)

SJS

Knight, Spencer
2025 5th round pick (SJS)

Buyouts

Keith Yandle: $1,241,667

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$87,675,000	$87,205,834	$0	$0	$469,166

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Verhaeghe, Carter $4,166,667$4,166,667 LW UFA - 1	Barkov, Aleksander $10,000,000$10,000,000 C NMC UFA - 6	Reinhart, Sam $9,000,000$9,000,000 RW UFA
Tkachuk, Matthew $9,500,000$9,500,000 RW NMC UFA - 6	Lundell, Anton $2,500,000$2,500,000 C, LW RFA	Samoskevich, Mackie $925,000$925,000 RW RFA - 1
Luostarinen, Eetu $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, C UFA - 3	Bennett, Sam $4,425,000$4,425,000 C UFA - 1	Rodrigues, Evan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, C UFA - 3
Lomberg, Ryan $850,000$850,000 LW, RW UFA	Sourdif, Justin $847,500$847,500 C RFA - 1	Stenlund, Kevin $1,100,000$1,100,000 C, RW UFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Forsling, Gustav $5,750,000$5,750,000 LD NMC UFA - 8	Ekblad, Aaron $7,500,000$7,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1	Bobrovsky, Sergei $10,000,000$10,000,000 G M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2
Ekman-Larsson, Oliver $3,200,000$3,200,000 LD UFA	Chatfield, Jalen $2,700,000$2,700,000 RD UFA	Stolarz, Anthony $2,200,000$2,200,000 G UFA
Mikkola, Niko $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD UFA - 2	Benning, Matthew $1,250,000$1,250,000 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Gadjovich, Jonah $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Kulikov, Dmitry $775,000$775,000 LD/RD UFA

Mar. 26 at 3:29 a.m.

Rob32sjsharks

Joined: Apr. 2020

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Don’t think Knight is worth a 2nd at this point.

Mar. 26 at 3:30 a.m.

Joxu

Thread Starter

FLA

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Quoting: Rob32sjsharks

Don’t think Knight is worth a 2nd at this point.

Fair enough, do you think it would be fair if it was a third instead?

Mar. 26 at 3:32 a.m.

Rob32sjsharks

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Quoting: Joxu

Fair enough, do you think it would be fair if it was a third instead?

Yes, but moving him is shortsighted. Bobby is killing it but is also 35+ you need knight to keep this team viable.

Mar. 26 at 3:38 a.m.

Joxu

Thread Starter

FLA

Joined: Nov. 2021

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Quoting: Rob32sjsharks

Yes, but moving him is shortsighted. Bobby is killing it but is also 35+ you need knight to keep this team viable.

True, at the same time Florida's cup window is roughly 5 years and those years are the ones that should be prioritized. With the uncertainty around Knight and whether he can be Florida's next starter I don't know that you can justify wasting 4,5 mil of the cap during the years with their absolute best chance at the cup.
At the same time you are raising a good point about the goaltending after Bob's deal is up and I really just don't know what the right move is there... Stolarz has been amazing as a backup this season and perhaps he could take over after Bob is gone.

Mar. 26 at 3:44 a.m.

Rob32sjsharks

Joined: Apr. 2020

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Quoting: Joxu

He already is in his 30’s and Bob will regress here sooner than later. Goalies typically can’t cary a team playing 65+ regular season games and a full playoff schedule playing in their mid to late 30’s.
This is a conundrum cause Knight also has mental illness that puts his viability as a long term starter in question.

How you guys handle this and how it pans out likely means the difference between fighting for a cup or just to get in the playoffs.

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Mar. 26 at 8:28 a.m.

batman

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Joined: Jul. 2023

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If FLA and Reinhart haven't agreed on a deal yet, it's probably because Reinhart wants to finish his crazy season and try to get more money in negos. I'd say if it was 9M, it would of been already a done deal.

Mar. 26 at 9:05 a.m.

MisstheWhalers

Joined: Jan. 2019

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Quoting: batman

Sounds like another Huberdeau contract.

Mar. 26 at 12:09 p.m.

glarson17

Joined: Jun. 2019

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Knight would be a perfect target for San Jose but I think there’s too much risk involved to send a pick likely in the top 35 for him

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