D-Day - Canucks waive Baertschi, Biega, Goldobin

[MS]

With 167k, on a short term replacement basis, we can replace our roster players with a $750,000 replacement player for 40 days on the roster.

That's how tight things are going to be this year.

You can't really think of it in terms of 40 days over the season. In order to be cap compliant, it has to be possible for every iteration of the roster to remain static for the rest of season without causing the team to go over the cap. Simply put, they can't call up anyone with the cap space they have (other than LTIR) and they likely won't be able to the rest of the year. The chance of that ~$900 a day in cap space they have building up into an amount that will allow even a league minimum player to be recalled is pretty much nil. So barring moving out salary, this team is going to need someone on LTIR pretty much all season.

But, of course, we totally had the cap space to give Boeser $7.5 million if we wanted to.

 

[DL44]

I think it will be gloriously horrendous.

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[Canucko]

But, of course, we totally had the cap space to give Boeser $7.5 million if we wanted to.

We sure did. Team didn’t need to be cap compliant at the time of the signing. And cap space was more than available at the draft and all of last year.