Invictus12
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Wings could go after Buff, but I think the Myers ship sailed. Peg has no reason to deal him. As stated above, he and Trouba are the backbone of their D for years to come. Plus Myers is on a really solid deal right now. Wings could afford Buff too if they wanted to, and he signed for around 7 mil. Especially if they could get Peg to take back a bit of salary. Like say Kindl or Smith+Pulu+Marchenko+1st or something.
Yeah I do realize that. They traded for him and obviously there is a reason for that so, it's unlikely they will just trade him away unless the deal is pretty much too good to be true. His deal is actually one of the reason I would really like him on the team. I mean, I would love Phaneuf just as much and his cap hit isn't something I'd mind, but that term…. Ugh.
Andersson is a non-factor with cap things. He will be cheap ~1M player for his whole career, easy be burned on the waiver wire, but could be valuable kept as 13th-14th guy. As the next "cleary" everybody hates, but as a guy who will help the team more than his contract worth.
But Helm and Abdelkader are gonna get UFA raises and will be the main problem, if we add another big contract.
Quincey gone will help obviously and Richards gone too. But DeKeyser will need a raise and Sheahan/Pulkkinen/Mrazek too.
If the cap is same at 2016-17 (71.4M)
1. Dats 7.5M
2. Zeta 6.1M
3. Gus 4.75M
(Mule 3.95M) don't count him on this case, expect to be LTIR.
(Richards 3.0M) - GONE
4. Tatar 2.75M
(Helm 2.125M) - GONE
(Abdelkader 1.8M) - GONE
(Miller 1.35M) - GONE
5. Sheahan 2.45M (from 950k) ~1.5M raise
6. Pulkkinen 2.0M (Mike Hoffman money) (from 735k) ~1.3M raise
7. Larkin 925k ELC
8. Jurco 900k
9. Ferraro 900k (extended)
10. Andersson 900k (extended)
11. Glendening 628k
12. XXX = 950k
13. YYY = 950k
14. ZZZ = 950k
+ Richards bonus 750k (reached conference finals, of course )
Total:
33.4M
Sheahan - Zeta - Nyquist
Jurco - Datsyuk - Tatar
XXX - Larkin - Pulkkinen
Andersson - Glendening - Ferraro
(YYY, ZZZ)
Franzen LTIR
1. Byfuglien 6.0M
2. Green 6.0M
3. Kronwall 4.75M
4. DeKeyser 4.5M (from 2.187M) ~2.3M raise (to those David Savard numbers)
5. Ericsson 4.25M
(Quincey 4.25M) - GONE
6. Smith 2.75M
7. Kindl 2.4M
Ouellet?
Marchenko?
Defencemen Total 31.2M
Howard 5.2M
Mrazek 2.2M (from 737k) ~1.5M raise (compared Mrazek to Robin Lehner 2.2M contract)
Goalies Total 7.4M
23-man roster total:
71.5M (100k over the current cap)
MMmmmm, we would be there with long teeth. But something has to be done for that cap-hell defence. There's no room for Ouellet or Marchenko. We can make one 950k hole by waiving Kindl, but another one has to be Smith traded or something like that. Ericsson has NTC.
I really think trade at the deadline would work better, because Winnipeg could eat some critical 2016-17 millions from our cap. Adding Byfuglien from free agency would be technically "free", but it forces us to quite a cap hell. It kind of kills the re-signing of Abdelkader so adding Buff we would lose Abdelkader for sure.
You really did your leg-work one this one. Also pretty much killed any assertion of getting someone like Buff come next summer… Going by this, Buff would pretty much have to really want to be here in order for us to afford him. I would think someone would offer him more than 6 mil per year???
Why would the 'peg want to trade Myers away?
and, more importantly, why would the 'peg want to trade Myers away for prospects? They've got a crazy prospect pool as it is. Best in the league, depending on who you ask. They want to win now. If anything, they want to trade prospects for proven talent.
Anyone you'd be willing to give up from our roster that you'd think Winnipeg would reasonably ask from us in an exchange?
I mean a guy like Tatar, Nyquist?...
Yeah no thank you, It's not a gimme that we could afford to resign Buff. We've got around $18.5 million to spend next year on 10 RFAs/UFAs if the cap stays the same. And we've got to resign DeKeyser, Sheahan, Mrazek possibly Abdelkader and Pulkkinen DeKeyser should get a nice raise. Not worth trading one of our best young wingers for possibly a 1 year rental.
I'm curious though, is it within the rules to have say, Red Wings negotiate a deal with Buff, have him sign with the Jets just so he can be traded to Detroit??
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