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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
Dallas has to extend both Harley and Robertson. Robertson is said to be looking at Marner type money while Harley with be in the 8-9 million. Even with the cap going up that’s $20 million combined for 26/27 season.
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I would guess that Robertson is looking for $12M. His stats are not that far off of Marner or Rantanen and as everyone likes to point out, his age works in his favour as the last years of an 8 year contract he signs right now will likely not see huge drop off. With the cap going up, it will be hard to argue he shouldn't get that number.
Harley is a bit more tricky but I expect he is looking at Dobson getting $9.5M and expect similar. With him being 23 and having so many RFA years left, Nill will probably find a way to knock that down but I would guess Dobson is the comparable.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
They’re looking at having $28M in space right now, with almost all of their roster still locked up.
I think they can make both fit. I would guess the urge to trade Robertson was heavily based on signing Marner.
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You would think so... $27.9M is a lot of cap space. But it can disappear quickly:
1) If Robertson + Harley = $20M then they have $7.9M for the rest of their roster.
2) Bourque and Lundkvist are each going to want raises at some point, that could cost a few mill (Lundkvist has arbitration rights)
***** That gets them to a 19 player roster out of 23. ******
3) They would need to figure out how much cap space they lose on Benn's bonus heavy contract for this season (could be as much as $3M) and then sign him again to another one?
4) If they acquire Andersson, then he is going to expect more than $8M... so that's the end of their cap space - Someone has to go.
5) They need to find 2-3 more league minimum bodies to fill out the roster and get to 23 skaters
At that point their cap space is blown and they have given full NMC to Rantanen, Seguin, Hintz, Duchene, Heiskanen, Benn, and a 20 team NTC to Lindell.
Robertson is likely to demand a NMC after being shopped around this summer.
I expect Andersson would also want a NMC after this summer.
That does not leave them with very many outs and they just spent a 2nd to dump Dumba. I expect Lyubushkin costs more than that because he has 2 years left instead of one.
They basically need Seguin to manifest another injury for the entire 2026-27 season.