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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Nobody is talking about them but I wonder if Carolina is a dark horse. They have the pieces to make the trade and they have the cap that they could move out. Calgary could absorb a lot of cap coming back.
Carolina currently has 28.2 million in cap space (with Andersen on the roster) and has to sign Necas, Drury, Jarvis, Terravainan and Skjei (along with 8 other players) with that cap. Markstrom at 3 million a year is right in their wheelhouse for cost for a goalie. I suspect they don’t want to trade Nikishin but I would propose the following
Markstrom 50% retained
Nikishin
Kotkaniemi
Andersen
Nadeau
2024 2nd
End result for Carolina would be that they would have 33.4 million to spend in the offseason to make their team better and retain current players (they would save 5.2 million in cap space next year) but would have a starting goalie who can stay healthy for this years playoff run and two more after that. The Flames have the ability to absorb that much salary and take a flier on a center and get a stud dman and offensive forward back.
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They already have $5.4 mil tied up in Goalies next season. They’d probably have to be in the summer once they figure out if Andersen is done or not. And Kotchetkov is pretty solid… I can’t imagine they’d pay through the nose for a starter when they could probably find some vet to split games.