[Big Erned Nevergivn]

Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald

Gaudreau ($9M)-Lindholm ($4.85M)-Forsberg ($7.5M)
Mangiapane ($6M)-Thomas ($2.8M)-Coleman ($4.9M)
Jarnkrok($2.75M)-Ruzicka ($1M)-Toffoli ($4.25M)
Pelletier ($.863M)-Dube ($2.3M)-Brown ($3.6M)
Duehr ($.828M)

Hanifin ($4.95M)-Anderson ($4.55M)
Kylington ($4M)-Tanev ($4.5M)
Perunovich ($1.5M)-Gudbranson ($2.75M)
Mackey ($.913M)

Markstrom ($6M)-Vlader ($.75M)

$80.554M cap hit. Still some room for the RFAs to get their longer term deals the following summer. How did we get here?

1) Trade Monahan and Valimaki to Ottawa for Connor Brown. $3.6M cap hit, $4.325M cap savings.
2) Trade Backlund to whoever for futures and draft picks. $5.35M cap savings.
3) Trade Lucic to Seattle for future considerations after his signing bonus is paid. $5.25M cap savings.
4) Sign Gaudreau to an 8 year $72M extension ($12M, $12M, $11M, $10M, $8M, $7M, $6M, $6M). $9M cap hit.
5) Sign Mangiapane to a 6 year $36M extension. $6M cap hit.
6) Sign Kylington to a 4 year, $14M extension. $3.5M cap hit.
7) Sign Jarnkrok to a 4 year $11M extension. $2.75M cap hit.
8) Sign Gudbranson to a 3 year, $8.25M extension. $2.75M cap hit.
9) Trade Tkachuk at the draft, to St. Louis for 2022 1st, Robert Thomas, and Scott Perunovich.
10) Dip into the UFA pool and sign Filip Forsberg to a 7 year $52.5M deal. $7.5M cap hit. (leverage the Swedish mafia)
11) Sign Ruzicka ($1M, one-way) and Perunovich ($1.5M one year, then work on long-term deal).

That's a lot of rigmarole for an arguably worse (or at least lateral) roster, than just using some futures to dump Monny and Looch and keeping the team we have. I dig the imagination though!