Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Personally I still don't think you need to go full scorched earth re-build here. Flames have some key elements that are good pieces for this team long term, whether they are core pieces or strong support pieces.
Core Forwards: Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Monahan, Lindholm
Support Forwards: Backlund, Mangiapane, Dube, (Also Pelletier, Pettersen as blue chipers)
Core DMen: Giordano, Hanifin, Valimaki
Support DMen: Andersson, Kylington (Also Yelesin looks good)
Core Goalie: Rittich
Then I think you have deadweight long term in Lucic who is likely unmoveable.
So overall as pieces that I think this team will have long term you have 8 forwards, 5 dmen and a goalie.
So then you look at potential moveable pieces or pieces that might hold value in a trade or are expiring after this season.
Forward
-Ryan - 2 years at $3.125M - Trade to
-Bennett - 2 years at $2.55M (RFA) - Trade to Montreal for 2020 2nd
-Frolik - 1 year at $4.3M
-Jankowski - 1 year at $1.675M (RFA) - Trade
Defense
-Brodie - 1 year at $4.65M
-Hanifin - 1 year at $3.85M
Flames will have some cap space to be able to make moves to add to this roster
Right wing: Andrew Mangiapane ($3,000,000) - Farm Team Call Up (Tuuola/Phillips) ($809,167)
Centre: Sean Monahan ($6,375,000) - Elias Lindholm ($4,850,000) - Mikael Backlund ($5,350,000) - Farm Team Call Up (Gawdin/Quine) ($1,000,000)
Left wing: Johnny Gaudreau ($6,750,000) - Matthew Tkachuk ($7,000,000) - Dillon Dubé ($778,333) - Milan Lucic ($5,250,000)
RD: Rasmus Andersson ($3,500,000) - Juuso Välimäki ($894,166)
LD: Mark Giordano ($6,750,000) - Noah Hanifin ($4,950,000) - Oliver Kylington ($2,500,000) - Alexander Yelesin ($925,000)
GOALTENDER (2)
David Rittich ($2,750,000) - Cheap Backup ($1,000,000)
BUYOUTS (2)
Troy Brouwer ($1,500,000) - Michael Stone ($1,166,667)
DETAILS
Roster Size: 18
Salary Cap: $82,000,000
Cap Hit: $67,098,333
Cap Space: $14,901,667
That $14M could go a long way to improving the Roster next season as long as they are willing to maybe make some tough decisions this year to try to stock pile some assets.
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