Sorry in advance for bumping with old posts, but I felt I could offer insight here.
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Originally Posted by dammage79
Seems like the Panther have 6m in cap and a crap ton of roster spots to fill next season with 4 key RFA's (out of 8 RFA's currently on the NHL roster) due for raises, a captain to re-sign (Mitchell) and a replacement for Brian Campbell as he will be UFA. I feel like they may be preparing to be on a tighter budget and moving Huberdeau for a younger RFA would help them.
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Mitchell may or may not come back. He's already 38 and definitely slowing down. I wouldn't be surprised if they brought back a 36 year old Campbell back for a 2 year deal on a very reduced salary (currently making over 7 million). He can still skate. I would be shocked if Jagr played next year, but you never know.
As for the RFAs, Howden, Brickley, Shaw, and Knight will be re-upped on qualifying offers. They don't have enough experience or production to get any more than that. Gudbranson will get a raise, but no more than an additional 1 million to get up to 3.5.
The big ones will be Trocheck, Pirri, and of course Barkov. They're under club control for a while still, so they won't get ridiculous raises, but they'll make a heck of a lot more than they currently do (all under 1 million). That will eat up the 6 million alone, but losing Mitchell, Campbell, Shawn Thornton, and Jagr, as well as the 2.2 million retained on Versteeg that expires, would drop the salary level by 18.5 million. There's plenty and plenty of cap space to work with, even if they wanted to re-sign some of those veterans.
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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Well if the rumor is Dano for Huberdeau then the Flames could match that one of Porier/Jankowski/Klimchuck plus one of Hickey/Anderson/Kylington?
Is Huberdeau worth 2 top prospects in the organization?
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Yes. Especially if those are the best prospects you could offer. He's already a top line NHLer at 22 with several years of experience. Quite frankly, I doubt that any combination of any of those two lists would get it done.
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Originally Posted by Samonadreau
If this is true they should probably dump someone else's cap. Huberdeau should be one of the untouchables on that team.
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He is. Top line winger just coming into his own and already has excellent chemistry with Barkov.
Quite frankly, if they had to find cap space they'd be likely to buy out Dave Bolland. He's been a healthy scratch of late.