Faulk for Tyler Johnson, who says no? TBL has bad RD depth, we’ve got too much. TyJo has worn out his welcome there, but could add some firepower to our forward corps moving forward. TBL has the cap space to absorb the extra cap hit. Faulk would have to agree to go.
The last thing Tampa should be contemplating is adding salary for next season (although the Coleman contract was a great move by them as he’s cheap and can be impactful to a degree). Tampa is in a world of hurt this next offseason with cap hits. I can’t remember if Johnson is 5 or 5.5 per year but regardless they’re going to have to shed a lot. If they don’t shed one of Johnson/Killorn/Gourde they will lose Sergachev which I’m not so sure they can keep him without shedding multiple of those guys. To be honest with you as well that will not be easy as they all have NTCs.
I don’t know exactly what’s going to happen with Sergachev but they have 6-7m remaining with 13 contracts on the books.
After digging a bit deeper Killorn is the only one that isn’t one of their top end contributors that has a modified NTC. Can they ask one of the others to waive, yeah sure but the contracts remaining aren’t going to be expiring anytime soon.
Cirelli will get a hefty raise 40 points in 58 games currently. Could very well be a 50-60 point player which puts him in the 2nd line category.
Shattenkirk will be given a contract somewhere much more than what he’s making now 30 points so far already.
Sergachev will get paid very handsomely somewhere. Would be shocked if he wasn’t offersheeted this offseason by somebody like Mtl.
I don’t think it’s too far out of the realm of possibility to look into a McDonough for Faulk type of trade IF Tampa needs to solidify the right side, and we are not happy with the compatibility of Faulk on the left side (or Pietro/Parayko) for that matter.
Luckily for Tampa they have a few young guys on draft contracts who could probably fill a few spots. But somehow I’d they want to keep Cirelli and Sergachev which I’d be willing to bet they do, they are going to be paying a pretty penny to do so because I don’t see a lot of teams out there that those guys would probably waive for given where they’re currently at that have cap space.