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frinkprof · 12-04-2013, 08:12 AM

Basically takes him to retirement.

I know Lundqvist is one of the best goalies in the league and that he is one of the biggest parts of that team, if not the biggest, but I'm philosophically against attributing that much cap hit to a goalie.

Rask and Rinne are at $7M and there's a handful in the $6M range.

Malkin, Perry, Ovechkin and Crosby are currently at $8.5M cap hit or above.

The goalie market is kind of weird. They are the most important part of the team on a night-to-night basis, but there are lots of them available and there's lots of ways to build a team so that having a "good enough" goalie (of which there's lots around), makes you a contender.

12-04-2013, 08:12 AM	#10
frinkprof First Line Centre Join Date: Dec 2009 Exp:	Basically takes him to retirement. I know Lundqvist is one of the best goalies in the league and that he is one of the biggest parts of that team, if not the biggest, but I'm philosophically against attributing that much cap hit to a goalie. Rask and Rinne are at $7M and there's a handful in the $6M range. Malkin, Perry, Ovechkin and Crosby are currently at $8.5M cap hit or above. The goalie market is kind of weird. They are the most important part of the team on a night-to-night basis, but there are lots of them available and there's lots of ways to build a team so that having a "good enough" goalie (of which there's lots around), makes you a contender. Last edited by frinkprof; 12-04-2013 at 08:18 AM.