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Originally Posted by Locke
Say you trade Bennett in the Stamkos deal, you still have to pay Monahan. Can you keep Monahan, Gaudreau and Stamkos under the cap? Probably not.
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Why not?
Stamkos $10m, Johnny $7m, Monahan $6m for a total of $23m between our top 3 guys. Make it $24m if you think Mony is going to get $7m.
Plenty of other teams have approximately the same amount of cap tied up in their top 3 forwards (or just a $2-3 million less), it's not unheard of. It just means BT would have to shed a bunch of dead weight and trade some combination of Hudler, Russell and Wideman for futures.
We might take a small step back but in the long run, it would be worth it as Stamkos will be playing for another 10-15 years still.
A core of Stamkos, Monahan, Gaudreau, Giordano, Brodie and Hamilton is drool worthy and very possible to fit under the cap. It would just require a bunch of other moves to take place, which is hardly impossible.
Doesn't matter though because it's not happening. Some other team will get Stamkos or he'll just re-sign in Tampa.