NotOpie
"Puck don't lie"
As I was looking at salaries and what we spent on players this year as well as what we're going to have next year to spend, I got to thinking....what if Peter Karmanos opened up the wallet a wee bit....like $5 million more. Sure it's likely a pipe dream but thinking about it gave me some pretty crazy thoughts.
Here's what I was thinking:
We resign Eric Staal for $26 million over 4 years.
We sign Victor Rask to a bridge deal of $5 million over 2 years.
We sign Sebastian Aho to an ELC for 3 years @ $925,000 per year
We sign Nordstrom for $1.7 million over 2 years
We resign Cam Ward for $6 million over 2 years
We resign Brad Malone for 1 year at $700,000
Trevor Carrick makes the big club on a two-way paying him $625,000 per year
Phil Di Giuseppe starts the year in Raleigh on his existing two-way paying him $817,500 per year
With all the existing contracts plus these transactions the Canes would have 20 players under contract for around $51,081,500.
So what if GMRF had the green light to spend to $68 million? That's about $17 million for two players. What would you do?
I know what I'd do....I'd try to sign Andrew Ladd to a 4 year deal at Jeff Skinner money ($5.75 million per year). But more importantly, I wonder if you could entice Steven Stamkos to Carolina with an 8 year, $92 million deal?
Total salary = $68.33 million or a shade over $5 million more than we spent this year.
You could run lines of:
Ladd/Stamkos/Lindholm
EStaal/JStaal/Aho
Skinner/Rask/Di Giuseppe
Nestrasil/McClement/Malone
Nordstrom
Defensive pairings would be:
Hainsey/Faulk
Hanifin/Wisniewski
Slavin/Pesce
Carrick
In the net:
Ward
Lack
I believe that's a team that could put the biscuit in the basket AND do a pretty good job of keeping it out of our basket.
Would Ladd and Stamkos sign deals like that or are they both getting more money and in Ladd's case more term? Could Ronnie sell the dream?
Here's what I was thinking:
We resign Eric Staal for $26 million over 4 years.
We sign Victor Rask to a bridge deal of $5 million over 2 years.
We sign Sebastian Aho to an ELC for 3 years @ $925,000 per year
We sign Nordstrom for $1.7 million over 2 years
We resign Cam Ward for $6 million over 2 years
We resign Brad Malone for 1 year at $700,000
Trevor Carrick makes the big club on a two-way paying him $625,000 per year
Phil Di Giuseppe starts the year in Raleigh on his existing two-way paying him $817,500 per year
With all the existing contracts plus these transactions the Canes would have 20 players under contract for around $51,081,500.
So what if GMRF had the green light to spend to $68 million? That's about $17 million for two players. What would you do?
I know what I'd do....I'd try to sign Andrew Ladd to a 4 year deal at Jeff Skinner money ($5.75 million per year). But more importantly, I wonder if you could entice Steven Stamkos to Carolina with an 8 year, $92 million deal?
Total salary = $68.33 million or a shade over $5 million more than we spent this year.
You could run lines of:
Ladd/Stamkos/Lindholm
EStaal/JStaal/Aho
Skinner/Rask/Di Giuseppe
Nestrasil/McClement/Malone
Nordstrom
Defensive pairings would be:
Hainsey/Faulk
Hanifin/Wisniewski
Slavin/Pesce
Carrick
In the net:
Ward
Lack
I believe that's a team that could put the biscuit in the basket AND do a pretty good job of keeping it out of our basket.
Would Ladd and Stamkos sign deals like that or are they both getting more money and in Ladd's case more term? Could Ronnie sell the dream?