Need to make a deep run this year to convince Panarin to come here. I’m not buying that big city thing. Show him the money and a good team, and he’ll come. Especially with the Tarasenko connection. Winning will solve a lot of problems. Will go a long way in the Petro and Schenn extensions too. Can we even afford Panarin with the Schenn and Petro extensions? With the expiring contract of JBo and would need to move Gunnar and Steen and then possibly losing Perron to Seattle in 2 years and maybe its possible.
It looks like we will go into this season near the cap. Going off that as a Base.
8.3 mil off the books with Gunn and Jaybo; if DA let’s some of our prospects fill the gap (Walkman and Mikkola at 650 k x 2 = 1.3 mil) it would be 7 mil savings.
No idea how much Maroon would eat into that if he signs this year then needs to be extended let’s assume he isn’t for best case of signing Panarin.
Burtozzo come of the books as well but he will be replaced with a UFA or schmaltz at nearly same cost.
Pie could get anywhere from 1.5 to 2.5 mil dollar raise. On outside 3 mil but I doubt it. But assume 3 mil worst case 1.5 best case.
Schenn? If he puts up another 70 point season do you lock him up before he does a third? It also possible teams will have more footage of him and Schwartz and he can go back to his Philly production. Just to hard to tell. If he puts up the same production as ROR id assume he would want at least that amount even if he isn’t as good of a two way player. That would be 2.1 mil however, the cap has went up a lot since ROR signed. Have to take that in to account as well so 3 mil worst case and 2 mil best case.
Worst case scenario maybe 6 mil and best case 3.5 mil.
Along with Schenn and Petro due two years from now you have Vince Dunn as well. If he continues to progress like we hope it might be a little bit. Hard to tell what Army will do. Army has gone for the bridge deal (I think) with every RFA not named Tarasenko, Payarko, and Pietrangelo. It doesn’t have to be huge since he can bridge him and I’d think that would be likely considering the raises to Pie and Schenn. So bridge Dunn at 2.5 mil to 3 mil.
Then you have Fabbri, Barbshev, Jaskin, Shosnikov, Sundqvist, Sanford, Blais, and Rienke all RFA.
Fabbri is the only one I think that could demand any type of huge raise but just to many variables with his situation. If he has a great season do you lock him up on a Parkyo/Schwartz deal around five years (two RFA three UFA)? If you bridge him only paying for 2 RFA years your looking to trade him or give him up to Vegas imho. So giving him a Schwartz contract put you at a 4.5 mil raise he has less years of production but at same time cap has went up since Schwartz signed.
——————————————Best Case—————- Worst Case
Pie and Schenn:—————- 3.5 mil.———————6 mil
Dunn:———————————2 mil.———————- 2.5 mil
Fabri:———————————4.5 mil.———————4.5 mil.
Cost:———————————-9 mil.————————13 mil.
Let’s hope the salary cap goes up 2 mil over the next year 2 years lol.
Panarin as a UFA of course is going to get paid (9 mil?). Even with best case scenario you would have to trade Steen even without Maroon in the mix. I guess if Fabri does poorly then you have a lot more room but I’m hoping no one is hoping for that.
As you brought up it causes all types of trouble with the expansion draft. So if Fabri does well you can trade Steen and Fabri for an expansion exempt prospect and sign Panarin? If Fabri doesn’t do well just trade Steen.
I might not be the best person to analyze probably way off but was bored so gave it a shot.
seems most folks are in agreement with the ~ 10 ranking for GMDA.
