[Monahammer]

I was thinking recently that it may be fun to keep a long-term estimate at what the club will potentially look like "after" the "rebuild". That way, we can laugh at ourselves and see how vastly different reality turns out in a few years.

My hope is that we use this description of existing contracts as a basis, and then speculate over the next year or 2 over what will occur, occasionally updating the signed contracts and agreed upon roster as signings or trades occur. Then, whoever got the closest the earliest gets some sort esoteric "yer a wizard, harry!" like kudos from the rest of us.

I chose 2026-2027 as the start season for the end of the rebuild for a few reasons:
1. Most of our contracts on the roster are up by then, except for some notable exceptions
2. The ELCs for the most recent draft players all come up that year.
3. It's the season following the McKenna draft, which many around here have been joking is our year to win 1st overall. It's also a draft in which we have a healthy amount of draft pick potential.
4. Frankly, most can't envision tanking at all so I suspect the tolerance for losing seasons to be at 2-3 max.

For the purposes of this exercise, I would guess that we work to resign Wolf, Coronato, Zary, and Bahl from the current RFA pool. BUT, because those contracts are unsigned, I won't include them in the set roster. But, in my own guess what's going to happen, I will include them.

With that aside, here is what the club would look like based on currently signed contracts:

Huberdeau-Kadri- Honzek
Coleman-X-Sharangovich
Basha-X-Gridin
x-x-x

Weegar-Parekh
Morin-X
X-Brzustewicz

X
X


Cap Hit for this is just a hair over 40 Mil