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BlackIce:
And now the next domino falls. The salary cap for next year was just announced at $79.5 million. I just don't see how that is going to be enough to sign Carlson for market value, give Wilson a healthy raise, AND fill out the rest of the roster, even if most of the rest are sub-million dollar players. The numbers just don't add up, unless a player or two with a larger salary is moved. One obvious candidate is Burakovsky. Even a Beagle won't save you very much, because his current hit is $1.75 million.
It really looks as though the choice comes down to either pay Carlson and Wilson and have close to minimum salary players fill out the last half-dozen spots on the roster, or let Carlson go, pay Wilson, and have significant room to sign whoever else of the vets you want -- and maybe even add a $2-3 million defenseman to occupy Carlson's spot (I won't say "replace him" because that's unreasonable to expect.)
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: BlackIce on Friday June 22, 2018, 07:46:59 AM Eastern ---And now the next domino falls. The salary cap for next year was just announced at $79.5 million. I just don't see how that is going to be enough to sign Carlson for market value, give Wilson a healthy raise, AND fill out the rest of the roster, even if most of the rest are sub-million dollar players. The numbers just don't add up, unless a player or two with a larger salary is moved. One obvious candidate is Burakovsky. Even a Beagle won't save you very much, because his current hit is $1.75 million.
It really looks as though the choice comes down to either pay Carlson and Wilson and have close to minimum salary players fill out the last half-dozen spots on the roster, or let Carlson go, pay Wilson, and have significant room to sign whoever else of the vets you want -- and maybe even add a $2-3 million defenseman to occupy Carlson's spot (I won't say "replace him" because that's unreasonable to expect.)
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This will really depend on the coach and the market.
Right now given the big salaries we already have, the cap space, Wilson and Holts coming up, and the questionable orginizational depth (Hershey finished last), I can’t see throwing 7-8m and a lot of years on one player.
Sure, it probably “could” be done, but it would all but certainly come back to bight us in the ass next year if not sooner.
I’m all for letting Carson go get 8m, and find a respectable Dman to take his spot at half the price.
justwincaps:
--- Quote from: DC_1908 on Friday June 22, 2018, 08:59:33 AM Eastern ---This will really depend on the coach and the market.
Right now given the big salaries we already have, the cap space, Wilson and Holts coming up, and the questionable orginizational depth (Hershey finished last), I can’t see throwing 7-8m and a lot of years on one player.
Sure, it probably “could” be done, but it would all but certainly come back to bight us in the ass next year if not sooner.
I’m all for letting Carson go get 8m, and find a respectable Dman to take his spot at half the price.
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Completely agree with letting JC go. Please let someone else overpay him and use that "saved" money elsewhere. I'm afraid GMBM may see us in a short window with with Ovie and Backstrom and use that to sign Carlson to keep "the gang" together for a shot at a repeat. Carlson would be hard to replace, but $8M in cap relief to shore up others areas and hopefully get a serviceable D-man seems the better path to me.
Ozzies09tc:
Grubs and Orpik to Avs for a 2nd
BlackIce:
--- Quote from: Ozzies09tc on Friday June 22, 2018, 07:20:10 PM Eastern ---Grubs and Orpik to Avs for a 2nd
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That may seem like not a whole lot in return, but the key to the deal was not what they could get for Grubauer, it was getting rid of Orpik's salary. You can bet your booties that NOW they are going to do everything they can to sign Carlson and probably Kempny as well. One big problem with the Caps' salary structure all along was that Orpik's contract lasted one year past the end of Carlson's. Now that $5.5 million problem is gone, and they didn't even have to buy him out, which would have given some, but not as much, cap relief and dragged the issue out another year.
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