When was the last time the cap went down?
My doomsday scenario:
Cap at 69. Bickell bought out. Steeger, Shaw, Smith traded.
Bowman will have to play hardball with the RFAs.
I'm not totally agianst trading Sharp. But I don't think market will be that great for him if the cap freezes at 69.
His NTC complicates the matter even more.
FORWARDS
Brandon Saad ($3.300m) / Jonathan Toews ($10.500m) / Marian Hossa ($5.275m)
Patrick Sharp ($5.900m) / Teuvo Teravainen ($0.894m) / Patrick Kane ($10.500m)
Young F via trade ($0.800m) / Phillip Danault ($0.863m) / Mark McNeill ($0.863m)
Cheap Vet Grinder ($0.600m) / Marcus Kruger($1.500m) / Joakim Nordstrom ($0.650m)
Brandon Mashinter ($0.563m) /
DEFENSEMEN
Duncan Keith ($5.538m) / Brent Seabrook ($5.800m)
Niklas Hjalmarsson ($4.100m) / Trevor Van Riemsdyk ($0.925m)
David Rundblad ($0.800m) / Ville Pokka ($0.925m)
Vet D Not Named Rozy ($0.800m) /
GOALTENDERS
Corey Crawford ($6.000m)
Antti Raanta ($0.750m)
BUYOUTS
Steve Montador ($0.000m)
Bryan Bickell ($1.000m)
BONUS OVERAGE
$0
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(estimations for 2015-16)
SALARY CAP: $69,000,000; CAP PAYROLL: $68,846,795
CAP SPACE (22-man roster): $153,205
WTF? how did you use capgeek
If we are buying out players I would rather buy out Sharp.
If the cap is at $69M, I'd almost rather see as few players moved out as opposed to gutting 6-7 players to make it work. So put me down for trading one of Sharp or Crawford (if anyone is willing to take that contract, Sharp is easier to trade I'd think) and Bickell. Looking at the archived Cap Geek that would leave the Hawks with roughly $56 million allocated to 13 players.
Forwards (7 total at $32.9M): Toews ($10.5M), Kane ($10.5M), Hossa ($5.3M), Versteeg ($2.2M), Shaw ($2M), Smith (1.5M), Terevainan ($0.9M)
Defenceman (4 total at $16.3M): Seabrook ($5.8M), Keith ($5.5M), Hammer ($4.1M), TVR ($0.9M)
Goalies (2 total at $6.8M): Crawford ($6.0M), Raanta ($0.8M)
Leaving 10 players with $13M to spend. I'll give Saad $3.8M just for this scenario because I can easily see Stan overpaying slightly.
I'll go with these kids from Rockford making the jump:
Pokka and Johns - combined $1.7M
McNeill and Danault - combined 1.7M
After that, the Hawks are 18 players and $63.2M with the roster looking like this:
Versteeg-Toews-Kane
Saad-Teravainen- Hossa
Danault-3rd line C- Shaw
McNeill-4th line C- Smith
13th Forward, 14th Forward
Keith-Seabrook
Hammer-Pokka
Johns-TVR
Veteran Dman
Crawford
Raanta
Leave the Hawks with $5.8M to fill those holes on the roster. Kruger will be an interesting case depending on his contract demands. They'd have to try to find some cheaper veteran UFAs to fill some of those spots. Gotta figure that in trading Sharp they would be able to get a decent piece to help the roster next year. And they can always try to save another $1M if they want to trade a Shaw and replace him with someone on a ELC.
Regardless, a $69M cap is gonna make things very difficult on the Hawks next year, no matter how you go about trying to construct a roster. Hopefully it's closer to $70-71M.
Even if it just slows down and doesn't go backwards it still means we bought Toews and Kane at the peak and Stamkos/Kopitar/STL guys etc are never going to come in over or even close to the Toews and Kane contracts.
It's really just terrible unlucky timing for the Hawks, which I'm fine with because we have had everything working perfectly for the last 8 years.
Even if it just slows down and doesn't go backwards it still means we bought Toews and Kane at the peak and Stamkos/Kopitar/STL guys etc are never going to come in over or even close to the Toews and Kane contracts.
It's really just terrible unlucky timing for the Hawks, which I'm fine with because we have had everything working perfectly for the last 8 years.
http://web.archive.org/web/20150102200851/http://capgeek.com/
Boom. Capgeek reborn. Not updated and it uses information that's correct as of January 2nd. But still useful.
Stamkos will be close to the Toews and Kane contracts IMO. He even said he was looking at those contracts as a guide to his upcoming negotiations when he was saying at the all-star game he plans to stay in Tampa.
It's a lot easier for a team to find the money to pay one guy 10.5 than to have to do what the Hawks did and give out two of those deals.