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Originally Posted by herashak
Can minnesota pay vanek? Sure heatley comes off the books but vanek will want term. big contracts to parise sutter pomminville and good young players like brodin, coyle, granlund etc will get paydays soon. i say vanek stays in ny
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they can, but they would use an awful lot of cap on five players:
7.5 for Parise until 2025
7.5 for Suter until 2025
6.8 for Koivu until 2018
5.6 for Pominville until 2019
add Vanek at about 7.5 to that and you spend nearly 35m on just 5 players ... even if the cap rises, that's about half of the cap spent on a quarter of the roster. With all the young guys coming through the ranks and needing raises in a couple years, I don't know if I would commit long-term to that kind of money.
Don't know about Minnys finances though. I guess Vanek would want a big signing bonus at the beginning of the contract though, and I doubt that they can easily do that after throwing huge signing bonuses at Suter and Parise.