Dion Phaneuf is the highest paid Sens defenceman today vs L.A. Kings

[Prairie Habs]

How the hell did the Leafs get rid of that entire cap hit of Phaneuf? Brilliant trade. 18 months later the Sens move him and they have to take money back.

Yet they had to retain on Kessel who is playing the best hockey of his career since being moved

 

[swiftwin]

I did it based off of AAV, because actual salary would have taken too much time haha

So Ottawa paid/is paying Phaneuf a total of 21M. 14M for the essentially two seasons of play, and an additional 7M for the 4 seasons of 1.75M retained.

A total of 13.4M went to the Leafs. 8M paid to Michalek in cap hit, Cowen only cost 100K-1M, depending on how much he was paid in the last quarter of the 15-16 season. the Leafs then bought him out costing a net of 100K on the caphit. Colin Greening got paid 5.3M.

So, if you were to look at actual salaries, it gets close to a wash. Even if you add in Cowen's 6.2M they would of paid off the cap directly to him, it's 19.6M to TOR and 21M to OTT.

So yeah, money wise, it was a wash for Ottawa and they got a deep run, which may or may not have been helped by Phaneuf.

Toronto, it was a big win for. As they got rid of Phaneuf's remaining 35M, and only had to take on a total of 13.4M on the cap in a year they had no use for the cap space anyway

It definitely was. Way more valuable than Cowen/Greening/Michalek would have been.

Big win for Ottawa, as they managed to turn dead salary into serviceable salary.

 

[Korpse]

Funny meme and all but this is hardly anything negative. If anything it is positive. Has allowed for Max Lajoie to step in and play some pretty good hockey.

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Is Ceci out long term? Talk about a team that did not need to lose three starters.

 

[sens13]

Is Ceci out long term? Talk about a team that did not need to lose three starters.

ceci sucks. no big loss.

 

[Sol]

They did a great job getting rid of him. He gets slower and slower every year.

He cut weight this year and got noticeably quicker tbh.

 

[solidprospect]

and we still won

 

[Karl Eriksson]

ceci sucks. no big loss.

Beggars can’t be choosers

 

[Zirakzigil]

That’s hilarious. Also shows how much the Sens have fallen.

 

[Jumptheshark]

And the Sens still won

 

[Disclose]

Dorion trying to explain Melnyk all day how they cant trade him again.