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Originally Posted by Textcritic

For SJ there is a daunting distance between "deciding" to rebuild, and actually conducting a rebuild:

· Erik Karlsson, 29-years-old, $11.25 m cap-hit until 2027, NMC
· Logan Couture, 31 years-old, $8.0 m cap-hit until 2027, m-NMC
· Brent Burns, 35-years-old, $8.0 m cap hit until 2025, m-NMC
· Marc-Edouard Vlasic, 33-years-old, $7.0 m cap-hit until 2026, NMC
· Evander Kane, 28-years-old, $7.0 m cap-hit until 2025, m-NMC

That is onerous. $41.25 m of contract obligations to five players for at least five years into their mid-to-late thirties, and all with NMCs. The Sharks are in serious, insurmountable trouble.