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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Don't know how Jack Eichel fits in the Vegas cap situation. Looking at the numbers and players they have signed beyond this season.
Mark Stone - $9.5M
Alex Pietrangelo - $8.8M
Max Pacioretty - $7.8M
William Karlsson - $5.9M
Alec Martinez - $5.25M
Shea Theodore - $5.2M
Robin Lehner - $5M
Jonathan Marchesault - $5M
Evengo Dadonov - $5M
Alex Tuch - $4.75M
That's $62.2M. Add in Eichel and that becomes $72.2M on 11 players. They have anther 7.675 committed to another four payers. That's $80M on 15 players. Then they have seven players coming up to RFA contracts. This is not doable would the Sabres taking on a BIG salary, and those salaries all have NTC clauses. I don't know how they can make this work, even if Eichel's contract is off the books for the whole year. There would have to be some serious shenanigans going on for this to magically work out.
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They would have to involve a 3rd team. Trade salary away to a team not on the NTC, then that teams sends additional assets (and possible cap dump) to BUF. I agree it would be difficult but GM's seem to find a way.