Britishbulldog
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princedpw said:Apologies for a very stream-of-consciousness post:
I'd like to ask one of the other not-so-lazy members of the board: Could you do a realistic cap-space analysis for me to see where we stand? Estimate new salaries for our many RFAs like Kadri, Franson, Gunnar, Bernier, Fraser, etc.
If we were to lose Bozak, MacAthur, Frattin, Komorov, that is a lot of wingers/forwards out the door. How can we replace them?
Given that we've lost Frattin and Komorov for sure, we need some help up front.
Could we bring back Mac (Do you think he wants more than $3.5?) and fit Weiss ($5.5?) under the cap?
I must say I'm also wondering about Stastny. Apparently, Colorado isn't taking Jones with their top pick, meaning they may well be taking McKinnon (or at the very least, another forward):
http://www.denverpost.com/avalanche/ci_23520384/joe-sakic-isnt-bluffing-about-colorado-avalanches-draft
With Duchene, O'Reilly and McKinnon on board, Stastny seems like an expensive 4th? line center. Of course, they could play a couple of those guys at wing.
Unlike most years, there aren't too many of the big spenders (Philly, Rangers, Boston, LA, Chicago) who have the cap space to take on a 6.6 million forward. Toronto's cap space is somewhat tight too but we could manage somehow, I believe (though, again, my laziness dictates that someone else do the legwork). The time might be right to take advantage like we did with the Phaneuf deal. Do we have the assets to make the trade though? Colorado needs defense. Of course, I'd love to give them Liles + one of our minor league D prospects like Matt Finn or Stuart Percy. Would that suffice? (Then sign Kaberle at $600k as a 6-7th depth D man in place of Liles. May be he can pick it back up in Toronto... He's only 35 and he's not one of those big lugs who can't skate.)
CAPGEEK.COM USER GENERATED ROSTER
My Custom Lineup
FORWARDS
James Van Riemsdyk ($4.250m) / Mikhail Grabovski ($5.500m) / Phil Kessel ($5.400m)
Joffrey Lupul ($5.250m) / Nazem Kadri ($3.500m) / Nikolai Kulemin ($2.800m)
Clarke MacArthur ($3.250m) / Joe Colborne ($0.900m) / David Clarkson ($3.750m)
Frazer McLaren ($0.700m) / Jay McClement ($1.500m) / Colton Orr ($0.925m)
Ryan Hamilton ($0.600m)
DEFENSEMEN
Dion Phaneuf ($6.500m) / Carl Gunnarsson ($2.500m)
Jake Gardiner ($1.117m) / John-Michael Liles ($3.875m)
Mark Fraser ($0.800m) / Cody Franson ($3.000m)
Tomas Kaberle ($0.700m) /
GOALTENDERS
James Reimer ($1.800m)
Jonathan Bernier ($2.500m)
OTHER
Buyout: Darcy Tucker ($1.000m)
Buyout: Colby Armstrong ($1.000m)
RETAINED SALARY TRANSACTIONS (0.778% of upper limit)
Matt Frattin ($0.437m?0.5%) Ben Scrivens ($0.062m?0.1%)
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled with the bonus cushion)
SALARY CAP: $64,300,000; CAP PAYROLL: $63,616,667; BONUSES: $300,000
CAP SPACE (22-man roster): $983,333
- Kadri is expected to sign for $2.75 MIL but I put him at the star level of Duchene's $3.5 (who Kadri is DEFINITELY not): + $0.75 MIL
- Clarkson is expected to sign between $3.75 and $4.5 MIL so I went a bit low on him but if he signs for more than $4 MIL then I hope it is with another team and the Leafs go after Chris Stewart whom the Blues have been rumoured to have to move due to budget restraints. - $0.25 MIL
- MacArthur or Clowe should be able to signed for $3.25 - $3.5 MIL: -$0.25 MIL
- Franson was expected to re-sign for around $2.75 but after the playoffs I expect that he will be signing for $3 MIL
- Bernier is expected to re-sign for around $1.8 MIL (like Reimer's contract): + $0.7 MIL
Sooo....there might be another $1 MIL available. Trading for Stastny would mean financially moving either Grabovski, Lupul, Kessel or Phaneuf.