2020 Roster and Fantasy GM Thread II

[Bourne Endeavor]

yes next season isn’t the season to be concerned about cap space, we can likely get Markstrom, Tanev and Toffoli signed if we let Stetcher walk and don’t re-up Virtanen. Ferlund is likely on LTIR all season but we need his cap hit at the beginning of the season and I would wonder if Baertschi would sign a mutual to free himself to sign a 1 million show me contract for next year, I think the guy is expecting to try and carve out another 5 years at least and won’t get that opportunity being buried in the AHL for another season, gotta stay relevant

I think we're better off paying someone to take on one of our dud contracts than letting Virtanen walk. Odds are we can convince a team to eat anyone not named Eriksson with a second rounder. And I'd rather give up that than Virtanen. At least we know what we have with him.

 

[Diamonddog01]

If the team could roll with Sutter as their 3C next year and let Gaudette compete with Eriksson, Virtanen, and MacEwen to fill out the RW slots it would be a big step to getting this team out of their cap mess. Avoids the Toffoli contract and also allows them to save assets in a Sutter cap dump trade.

I wouldn't allow a small sample size to skew one's view towards Sutter. I mean...maybe he's finally healthy, and he knows it will be a contract year, and he's deployed properly similarly to how he was deployed in 16/17...but it seems as though the stars would need to align perfectly for him to lock down the 3rd line C role next year. Would love to be proven wrong on this but I am extremely doubtful.