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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Man, Treliving is going to have to be in full on wizard mode to bring back a team as competitive and tough as this years group while keeping it all under the cap.
You play around on CapFriendly and it's an exercise in frustration, futility and wishful thinking.
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Was just going to post this, was doing some CapFriendly tinkering and we are in a world of hurt. Too many inflated contracts for our middle 6 Forwards for sure, we simply cant afford to pay our bottom 6 so much.
$26,925,000 in CAP space w/ Monahan on LTIR -
$20,550,000 with him on the roster (which he will be start of next season unless traded)
It really does look like we'll need to trade a big fish to recoup some picks/prospects or cheaper rookie contracts etc. I cant fathom this team looking the same next year at all, has to be some huge changes.
Troubling contracts: (value)
Lucic - 5.25 (brutal for a 4th liner)
Monahan - 6.37 (brutal for your 4th line center/injury plagued forward)
Toffoli 4.25 - 2 more years for a 3rd line winger (should be 2nd line) unless he can turn it around
Then take your 2 positional defensive forwards who played well but over value:
Backlund @ 3rd line center for 5.35 is too high
Coleman @ 3rd line winger for 4.9 is too high
____ x Lindholm x ____
____ x Backlund x ____
____ x Monahan x ____
____ x Dube x ____
Roster players under contract:
Lucic
Toffoli
RFA
Tkachuk
Mangiapane
Johnny @ 10M (could get more)
Matthew @ 9M minimum
This leaves us
$1,550,000 to complete the roster which isn't enough.
4 D next year is rough:
Hanifin x Andersson
Tanev x ____
Valimaki x ____
So we essentially need a 3rd/4th D and then a 5/6 unless you feel Valimaki (huge decline) or Mackey are ready to take the full time step.