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Re: Oilers sign Koskinen [message #714306 is a reply to message #714303 ]	Thu, 03 May 2018 14:41

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mightyreasoner wrote on Thu, 03 May 2018 14:14

FWIW, I'd be much happier with Bernier at 2.75 than Koskinen at 2.5. You know what you're getting with Bernier. And if Talbot goes down, Bernier proved he can get a half decent team to the playoffs.

Or you can look for a guy who is being squeezed by his current team. Pickard looks fully capable of being a solid backup. Both him and Subban were on waivers last season and the Oilers passed on both. Still can probably get Pickard in a trade. Or maybe you sign Cale Morris and another goalie for the AHL, roll with Montoya and see if those two develop or any other goalies hit the waiver wire like Pickard and Subban did this year.

It was very early to make a decision about an unknown commodity and to pay that much for him. If you are spending 2.5, at least see if Bernier, Graubauer, Halak, or Hutton would accept it first. You know what you're getting and it's less likely to go off the rails.

And I do question whether these guys think much about the cap and how they juggle everything under that cap. Here's the signed roster for next year:

Forwards (9) - $38.00MM cap hit:
McDavid, Draisaitl, Nugent-Hopkins, Lucic, Kassian, Puljujarvi, Rattie, Khaira, Aberg.

Defence (4) - $17.83MM:
Sekera, Klefbom, Larsson, Russell

Goalies (2) - $6.67MM:
Talbot, Koskinen, Montoya (minors-bound)

Assuming a $75MM cap, that means that we have $62.5MMcap space locked up for next year, and we need to add five forwards and three defencemen.

Our RFAs are Strome, Caggiula, Nurse & Benning. Strome will get similar money to last year, Nurse will get a huge raise. Caggiula and Benning will get modest raises. Reasonable guess would be $2.5, $1.5, $4.0, $1.5 - that's 9.5MM, which leaves only $3MM for the other four hires. Maybe there will be an increase in the cap and we'll get a tiny bit more room, but there's not a lot of margin for error here, so if you over pay a guy by a million bucks, it has big ramifications on the rest of the roster. We have zero winger depth, and we can't afford to go get it.

And if we were to trade for a $7MM/year offensive d-man, we would have to send significant salary dollars the other way. We can't address all the issues, and I'm not convinced that there's a big upgrade from Montoya to Koskinen, who's getting paid 2.5X as much.

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