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The ‘23-‘24 boredom thread.. no square poop allowed
richkrt99:
GMBM to new GMCP:
"See here's what you do...you spend every last nickel you have up to the cap, and a couple you don't have. Then, you sit back and enjoy the fuckery you've done when someone else takes over"
Surreylily:
--- Quote from: richkrt99 on Monday July 08, 2024, 01:15:14 PM Eastern ---GMBM to new GMCP:
"See here's what you do...you spend every last nickel you have up to the cap, and a couple you don't have. Then, you sit back and enjoy the fuckery you've done when someone else takes over"
--- End quote ---
:lmao:
alta:
Thursday or Friday, (former)GM BMac made comments that suggest trading is done for the summer and barring a major injury this is the squad for ‘24-‘25. 12 forwards, 13 if you count Backy, and 8 Dmen. Currently the Caps have $4M of cap space only because of Backy being out. Hopefully they keep some breathing room there, though they do technically have a roster spot open. Having a roster spot open and cap space lets them call up players from Hershey as needed without rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/roster
https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/capitals
BlackIce:
--- Quote from: alta on Monday July 08, 2024, 04:07:26 PM Eastern ---Thursday or Friday, (former)GM BMac made comments that suggest trading is done for the summer and barring a major injury this is the squad for ‘24-‘25. 12 forwards, 13 if you count Backy, and 8 Dmen. Currently the Caps have $4M of cap space only because of Backy being out. Hopefully they keep some breathing room there, though they do technically have a roster spot open. Having a roster spot open and cap space lets them call up players from Hershey as needed without rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/roster
https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/capitals
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Looking at cap friendly, it appears to me that the Caps are $4.1 million OVER the salary cap at the moment, even with Backstrom's LTIR exemption. That is what makes me think that Oshie is done, and is going on LTIR for the season. That gives them another $5.75 million of exemption. Then I wouldn't be surprised if they put Bear on waivers to give themselves a little more room. Otherwise, something is going to have to give. Waiving Bear still leaves them with 7 defensemen, and allows them to carry a 13th usable forward, quite possibly LaPierre or Miroshnichenko and still stay within the LTIR-expanded cap limits.
alta:
--- Quote from: BlackIce on Tuesday July 09, 2024, 03:10:35 AM Eastern ---Looking at cap friendly, it appears to me that the Caps are $4.1 million OVER the salary cap at the moment, even with Backstrom's LTIR exemption. That is what makes me think that Oshie is done, and is going on LTIR for the season. That gives them another $5.75 million of exemption. Then I wouldn't be surprised if they put Bear on waivers to give themselves a little more room. Otherwise, something is going to have to give. Waiving Bear still leaves them with 7 defensemen, and allows them to carry a 13th usable forward, quite possibly LaPierre or Miroshnichenko and still stay within the LTIR-expanded cap limits.
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I did ask over a week ago if someone was retiring that we didn’t know about..
https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2024/07/05/tj-oshie-update-back-injury-capitals/
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