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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
That was how the article was written, but seems to ignore that only SJ is under the floor at the moment. I don't see getting to the floor to be much of a problem, certainly not one that would cost an asset. Very Montreal-centric viewpoint on that one.
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I think the Penguins could become interested in Price's contract if they start blowing up their core.
The floor is $70.6M? The Pens are sitting on $83.4M salary right now. If they move out Karlsson and Crosby then they are below the floor by almost $6.3M. Salary retention could soften the drop a bit.
Crosby to Avs (50% retained = $4.35M) for futures
Karlsson to Vegas (50% retained = $5M) for futures + cap dump
Price to Penguins with futures
Malkin to ??? (50% retained = $3.05M) for futures
That would use all of their retention slots, restock the prospect pipeline, and stay above the cap floor. With all of that retention they would technically still be above the salary cap floor without Price's contract, so they could keep going with the blow up and move out another ~10M in salary (Rust & Rakell).
Also, the Pens would still need to field a team, so they could start taking on dead weight that other teams want to unload.
It would be a really interesting rebuild if Dubas was willing/allowed to get that aggressive and Price's contract could help them go all out in blowing up the team.