CrusaderPi wrote on Tue, 11 June 2024 14:52

Mike wrote on Tue, 11 June 2024 13:06 Kr55 wrote on Mon, 10 June 2024 20:13 Adam wrote on Mon, 10 June 2024 17:08 CrusaderPi wrote on Mon, 10 June 2024 13:11 Kr55 wrote on Sun, 09 June 2024 00:15 NCREDiBLE wrote on Sat, 08 June 2024 23:47 I thought Browns cap hit next year was 3.2? Well $1.5 is better than $1.3. Hopefully no more buy outs either so we get that $1.92mill back as well from Neal. Although some nights the thought of a Nurse buy out is tempting lol Ah crap. guess our bonus carry over is $3,550,000 total. Includes Perry I guess. So, $950,000 extra cap space for the next GM to work with Then Bouch and Drai extensions to deal with the next year. Really hope we can make this current cup run count! I think the Phoenix move to Salt Lake City will change the cap landscape. It might save Draisaitl, even at 12. Depends on if we find a way to spend all our increased cap space for 2025-26 this summer by finding the next Connor Browns... We are next level screwed if we don't get a GM now that can properly manage the cap. Imagine Holland trying to improve this team next year with 900k of space. He probably just immediately signs Corey for 900k base and a 3M bonus for achieving 1 microsecond of ice time. I've railed against buyouts for years, but looking at the savings for Campbell, I think he absolutely needs to be bought out. We would have 3 years of $1.5M dead space on the tail end, but savings of $3.9M, $2.7M, and $2.4M the next 3 years. Should be more than enough to find a backup. I tend to agree on this. The goal has to be winning next year and, obviously, this year too. But in the last year of Drai's contract they have to go for it.

The new GM's job won't be an easy one. With Draisaitl and Bouchard in their last year, we need to find a way to both be competitive next year AND to have enough room to hopefully sign those guys.

Also - build better depth, a better blueline and a backup plan on goaltender. It's a demanding role.

I think that means finding some way out of Campbell's deal (I still think he has a career ending injury in him), dealing Kane for whatever you can get for him, dealing Ceci for whatever you can get for him and checking to see if there's a party who can take Nurse without leaving us with an ungodly amount of his salary.

Question - can you deal a guy to a team and then have them immediately trade him back to you to offload some of his salary? I know someone did trade someone to a team to have him bought out so they could re-sign him cheaper previously...

We're going to need to have someone in charge who's able to find all the ways to skirt the edges here over the next couple of years. We have a cap crunch coming, so we just can't afford a bunch of brutal contracts for third pairing defencemen and depth players. The team is going to have to find more creative ways of attracting talent than just throwing money at free agents.

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