Bryanbryoil
Pray For Ukraine
- Sep 13, 2004
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Devil's Advocate for a moment...
Theoretically... let's say Chiarelli pulls off the trade of a lifetime and unloads
Scrivens+Nikitin+Purcell+Ference(agrees to the trade)... all for late draft picks and future considerations.
Now he starts the season with Nilsson+Reinhart+Slepyshev+Nurse on the roster as their replacements.
How many of us here would praise that remarkable trade BUT at the same time be thinking... wow that's a lot of unproven question marks to add to a team with already quite a few question marks.
There's something to be said for some veteran presence on a team that's already got a lot of youth.
For the record I'd do that deal and be ecstatic but my guess is that in the short term there would likely be a pretty big learning curve and some bumpy times in the win/loss column with that many new bodies dumped into the roster.
Firstly that would free up $14.55 million in cap and it would be replaced by $3,651,666 for a cap savings of $10,898,334. Secondly I would not be playing Nurse in the NHL right now, I would instead have Davidson at $585,000 riding the pine as our 7th defenseman. That would bring our total cap savings to $11,176,667.
$11+ million in additional cap to make moves works for me.