Confirmed with Link: Carlson is back 8 years x 8 mil

[artilector]

Fairly decent, considering all the leverage Carlson had -- best UFA out there, career year, utter lack of in-house options/depth.

Still, another scary contract, almost on par with Oshie's. On the bright side, Caps will now be pretty much forced to rely heavily on the youth movement to fill the holes -- they just won't have the cap space for any stupid contracts, haha. And the other bright side is that now we know BMac is capable of acting decisively to move big contracts when he has to. Just keep drafting good 4th round goalies, haha.

 

[BiPolar Caps]

Now Erik Karlsson's next contract will be somewhere between 10 and 12.

 

[hockeykicker]

 

[MW6]

Did some research:
Player, age of contract start, % of salarycap when signed
Weber 26 13,10%
Subban 25 13,04%
Suter 27 12,56%
Letang 26 11,28%
Phaneuf 29 10,89%
Doughty 21 10,89%
Burns 32 10,95%
Hedman 25 10,79%
Byfuglien 30 10,41%
Ekblad 20 10,27%
Karlsson 22 10,11%
Pietrangelo 23 10,11%
Carlson 28 10,06%
Keith 26 9,75%
Seabrook 31 9,63%
Enström 27 9,58%
Vlasic 31 9,33%
Giordano 31 9,25%
Shattenkirk 28 8,87%
Yandle 30 8,7%
Fowler 26 8,67%
Girardi 30 8,55% (bought out)
Myers 21 8,55%
OEL 21 8,55% (current one)
Bouwmeester 30 8,40%
Niskanen 27 8,33%
Green 30 (27) 8,22% (10,14% previous)
E Johnson 27 8,22%
Boychuck 31 8,22%
Bogosian 23 8,0%

And keep in mind that pretty much every contract signed pre-27 years of age bought some RFA years (IOW more costcontrolled)

 

[Hivemind]

Now Erik Karlsson's next contract will be somewhere between 10 and 12.

That was happening regardless.

 

[rt]

Congrats! How’s the cap situation? Need relief?

 

[Hivemind]

That's the biggest NTC the Capitals have given out under either McPhee or MacLellan. Which is actually something management should be pretty proud of.

 

[Hivemind]

Congrats! How’s the cap situation? Need relief?

No. We traded Brooks Orpik

 

[hockeykicker]

That's the biggest NTC the Capitals have given out under either McPhee or MacLellan. Which is actually something management should be pretty proud of.

 

[g00n]

Fwiw, no beat writer broke the oshie deal, the oshie trade, the orpik trade etc before the capitals twitter announced it. Shows gmbm is really tight lipped

Plus most of the national media guys are national media for a reason. They're connected and they get fed preferred information.

I doubt most of the big deals that happen are fed to local beat reporters first...for ANY team except maybe the NY, LA, or Toronto squads. This isn't the 40s with cub reporters running around with ears to walls listening for scoops.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Carlson’s wife’s post on Facebook was very sweet.

 

[Sam Spade]

Didn’t think he was going anywhere

Please. He was always coming back.

I feel like it was here or Jersey and nowhere else was an option.

When you look around the league at the teams that could afford to take on 8.5 that was a contender or on the rise? After looking at it pretty carefully I came up with the Devils and the Avs.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

I feel like it was here or Jersey and nowhere else was an option.

When you look around the league at the teams that could afford to take on 8.5 who was a contender? After looking at it pretty carefully I came up with the Devils.

I was scared of the Islanders after they had money to spend and Trotz

 

[Sam Spade]

I was scared of the Islanders after they had money to spend and Trotz

Yeah I thought of them but Boychuk at 6.0, Leddy at 5.5 and lets face it Tavares is coming back, at 11 mil, really tightens it up there with only 13 players signed for next season (14 if JT is re-signed).

 

[TRASHCAT]

Carlson’s wife’s post on Facebook was very sweet.

Link it for those of us who dont want our data stolen

 

[hockeykicker]

Carlson’s wife’s post on Facebook was very sweet.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Link it for those of us who dont want our data stolen

Wife showed me. I’m with you lol....

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

Yeah I thought of them but Boychuk at 6.0, Leddy at 5.5 and lets face it Tavares is coming back, at 11 mil, really tightens it up there with only 13 players signed for next season (14 if JT is re-signed).

I think JT is going to the Sharks or Leafs. Trotz will be stuck with the shit roster he quit on us for.

 

[hockeykicker]

 

[RandyHolt]

BMac re-affirming actual GM of the year

Primary goes to family life

 

[Sam Spade]

I think JT is going to the Sharks or Leafs. Trotz will be stuck with the **** roster he quit on us for.

Honestly if I am JT I definitely leave, outside of getting a great coach and some high end offensive guys, I just don't see it there. That combined with the playing games in two arenas for the next three seasons are super red flags for me as a player.

That being said, I have heard it said all weekend that JT does not want to "quit" on the Isles and he especially doesn't want to be seen as the villain in this scenario, which of course at this point he would be.

 

[islandersdynasty]

I feel like it was here or Jersey and nowhere else was an option.

When you look around the league at the teams that could afford to take on 8.5 that was a contender or on the rise? After looking at it pretty carefully I came up with the Devils and the Avs.

I thought islanders or vegas with GMGM.

 

[Sam Spade]

BMac re-affirming actual GM of the year

Yeah and he and Cheveldayoff are doing some really fancy work the last few seasons.

Cheveldayoff still has a ton to get done this off-season (9 RFA's) but he has been pretty slick so far.

 

[Sam Spade]

I thought islanders or vegas with GMGM.

I think Vegas is going hard after Erik Karlsson (no relation ).

 

[BiPolar Caps]

I think JT is going to the Sharks or Leafs. Trotz will be stuck with the **** roster he quit on us for.

Patrick O'Sullivan on XM the other day, says he know Taveras quite well, they golf at the same club. He believes Taveras is looking at numbers around 12.