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matthias893

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Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 30, 2023 at 10:38 a.m.
Thread: Moves at TDL
I'd be shocked if the Sharks use their last retention slot on anything other than rentals for the next few years. Also, in this scenario we'd be tying it up for 4 years for a bottom six player, a 3rd (after the Grzelcyk trade), a 5th and a 7th.

Just looking at this season, if Hoffman keeps getting his game back we could use it on a trade with him and probably get a 3rd back easy (without the slot his cap hit is probably not tradeable). There are plenty of other realistic trade scenarios too where teams will pay a premium to squeeze someone under their cap. Salary retention could easily be the difference between a 2nd and 1st in some trades. Multiply that by the next three seasons too and you can see how much of a waste it would be for SJ to tie up that valuable slot.

This deal doesn't come close to paying for 4 years of retention (let alone the $16m) and that doesn't even account for Couture's value, however low you think that might be.
Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 10, 2023 at 3:16 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 6, 2023 at 1:29 p.m.
Thread: Bedard era begins
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>PenguinMullet68</b></div><div>They do to it add an a experienced defenseman that can play both RHD or LHD and is better then Zaitsev to help their young defenseman out and get Ozzie Wiesblatt who is the Sharks top prospect in the AHL and don’t give up any picks just Zaitsev who was a human pilon
Why would Vlasic veto it?
Does he like losing every 2nd night just so the Sharks can draft a player he will never play with at the top of the 24 draft?</div></div>

Wiesblatt is definitely not our top prospect in the AHL. Gushchin, Robbins and maybe even Cardwell and Coe are ahead of him, and that's just forwards. I like Ozzy and hope he figures it out this year, but last year he was a borderline AHL/ECHL player who has yet to find his scoring touch at the professional level. Even still the Sharks aren't going to throw him away just to try and free up cap space that they don't need.

To be honest I don't think there are any assets that the Sharks would be willing to trade (young talent/picks) that would make another team think taking on the Vlasic contract was worth it. There's also no pressing need to free up cap. We'll just end up waiting it out, and we have $36m in cap space next year even with Vlasic on the books so I think we're fine there.