tkecanuck341

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Forum: Armchair-GM15 hours ago
Thread: How to fix the Cap Problems
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Shark63</b></div><div>I see Pavs taking a gentleman's agreement with DW. Pavs taking a 1 year deal, then after expansion draft DW giving him 2-3 years. With the 1 year deal, pavs a ufa and can't be protected yet Seattle can't take him since he's not under contract</div></div>

Expansion draft is 2 years from now. He'd have to take a 2 year gentleman's deal to get him through to Seattle. These are the last few years that Pavelski can get paid. He was already on a very team-friendly contract up until this point in his career. No one is going to give a 36 year old player $7M+, so if he signs a team-friendly deal with San Jose, he's throwing away his chance at a payday. He's not gonna do that.

Not to mention this is the last contract that Pavelski can sign a non-35+ contract. It's in the team's best interest to lock him up long term now, or the team will carry all the liabilities that come with a 35+ contract.
Forum: Armchair-GM15 hours ago
Thread: Marleau return
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>bkt42bkt42</b></div><div>Actually cap friendly is wrong about the buyout, it is a 5.4 million cap hit for 2019 and ,4 million for 2020.....and he isn't likely to accept the trade unless he gets the buyout and can go out West.....Toronto will just have to sweeten the deal even more to get the team who takes him to buy him out (retaining salary, adding Kapanen/Johnsson or draft picks)</div></div>

CapFriendly isn't wrong. 35+ contracts count against the salary cap in their entirety, regardless if the player retires, gets bought out, or goes on LTIR. The team that buys him out would still have his full $6.25M cap hit on the books.

A team could potentially buy him out to save on the cash owed to him since they'd only have to pay him two annual payments of $2.08M, but they would get zero cap relief.
Forum: Armchair-GM21 hours ago
Thread: Only 82mil and getting impact picks now
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>PhillDaThrill</b></div><div>Byram isn't going to be ready this year. Chicago needs the D to be better now. Borquist will be ready in 2020 to replace UFA Gussy, so Byram would be redundant. They still get the 7 pick to get a nice forward prospect. With this move Chicago's D is much better for 2019 and beyond.</div></div>

I don't know why you think he's not going to be ready this season. If the Kings draft Byram, they have every intention of playing him in the NHL this season alongside Doughty.

Byram is also a LHD while Boqvist is a RHD, so it wouldn't hurt for Chicago to have them both. That would be a quality top defensive pairing.

If Vegas wants to upgrade to the 3rd overall pick. They're going to have to pay significantly more than Colin Miller.