[Signing] Flames sign Mason Raymond (3yrs, $3.15mil AAV, modified NTC)

[Gaskal]

Originally Posted by Goodlad

^Is that really necessary? Could you spoiler that at least?

Yea no kidding....I spoiler my Around the League reports and they aren't even close to being that TLDR wall of text

[ricardodw]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

The easiest way to do it is $68.1 million salary cap / 23 roster posts = $2.96 million cap hit on average per roster spot.

or take the top 3 forward 2 d-men and #1 G out and then divide by 17.

take a cap team by random - Colorado since the Flames play them today:

Duschene 6, ROR 6 Landeskog 5.5 Johnson 3.75 Stuart 3.6 Varmolov 5.9

=30.75 out of 68.1 leaves 37.35 /17 = 2.2 M / non core player

The Colorado core is skewed lower by having no #1 D men

Taking the current SC champs:

Kopitar 6.8 Brown 5.9 Richards 5.8 Doughty 7 Martinez (or Muzzin) 4 Quick 5.8 total 35.3 left over 32.8 / 17 = 1.93 M non core player

3.1 puts you at the very top of the supporting non-core player category.

[Fire of the Phoenix]

Originally Posted by ricardodw

or take the top 3 forward 2 d-men and #1 G out and then divide by 17.

take a cap team by random - Colorado since the Flames play them today:

Duschene 6, ROR 6 Landeskog 5.5 Johnson 3.75 Stuart 3.6 Varmolov 5.9

=30.75 out of 68.1 leaves 37.35 /17 = 2.2 M / non core player

The Colorado core is skewed lower by having no #1 D men

Taking the current SC champs:

Kopitar 6.8 Brown 5.9 Richards 5.8 Doughty 7 Martinez (or Muzzin) 4 Quick 5.8 total 35.3 left over 32.8 / 17 = 1.93 M non core player

3.1 puts you at the very top of the supporting non-core player category.

Try taking the 4th liners and any players on ELCs out too. Also remove the 13th and 14th forward out, also take the 7th dman out. Don't forget the backup goalie, leaving him in would be just silly. If you remove the top end, you need to take out the bottom end too, otherwise it's still skewed. You're need to compare Raymond to others that are established and signed as UFAs, or at least those who had UFA years bought on their current deals.

A capable 3rd line player (what Raymond has been most of his career) costs 2.5m to 4.5m. No matter how many numbers you want add, subtract, or multiply by pi divided by 16.7... that's just what it is. Look around the league to see what other teams are paying their middle 6 guys that are late 20s, proven and are not reclamation projects.

[GioforPM]

Most of the players on Ricardo's list were not 20 goal guys. Which Raymond is (including this year, barring injury).