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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
While it shouldn't be the reason he stays or goes, the contract issue shouldn't be so quickly dismissed.
Contract renegotiations (just looking at young players):
1 year: Galiardi, Bouma (yes, no biggie there, but it all adds up)
2 years: Backlund, Brodie, Baertschi
3 years: Monahan and Gaudreau (if he signs after this season - it would be a 2-year ELC)
Then there is the chance that one or two of the following group takes a big step forward:
Sieloff, Wotherspoon, Ramage, Berra, Knight, Colborne, Agostino, Reinhart, Horak (of course they are not all going to be big contract guys - I am saying one or two of them might be though)
Then maybe 4 years out, you're looking at: Poirier plus this year's top pick
And a guy like Gillies could be in the mix by then
Of course, there is no worries on the cap front for 2 or 3 years, but it will come. And it will come quickly.
Some prudent consideation now wouldn't be the worst idea.
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Bouma, Galiardi, Backlund shouldn't cost that much at all and if they do see you later and let them go.
Gaudreau is a huge if so not sure we need to worry about that.
For the list of prospects like most teams most of them will be not NHLers or tweeners so unlikely any big deals coming out of that group.
Outside of Monahan and maybe Baertschi there is no player on the team looking like they will need 6+ million that we couldn't can.
In the fake line-up by Devo you get rid of Hudler, Wideman, Backlund, Stempniak, Russell if they are making that much without huge improvements in their games and if they do make those huge steps to be worth the contracts then you trade some young guys or trade them.
The only way that the Monohan potential early contract hurts us is if we give out a lot of other bad contracts with it.