lots of
Lots of good points I just have a real issue with the dead or wasted cap space.
1 - $6million - Eriksson (kills penalties and any offense that comes within 200ft of him - belongs in the press box)
2 - $4.4 - Sutter (Love his effort, perfect 4th line C - $4.375 for 4th line C....)
3 - $3 x 4 years - Beagle - 4th line C probably shouldn't be in our top 12
4 - $3 x 4 years - Roussel - not producing, takes stupid penalties would rather dress McEwen
5 - $3.36 - Baertschi - love a $2.2 cap hit for a Comet forward
6 - $1.03 - Spooner buyout - sure we got out of the terrible $3+ million you paid Gagner, but still dead cap from bad management
7 - $3.5 x 4 years - Ferland, not too upset by the cap number, stupid term especially for a player with Ferland's career
8 - $4.735 - bonus money + Luongo cap recapture, not bad signings or Bennings issue, just further dead cap space
That's $27.2 million for 4th line players and dead cap space (only responsible for $22.5) that is 27+% of the total cap. Bad management.
Yeah, Eriksson needs to be shown the door. I don't know how, over one summer, he got so bad, so quickly.
Sutter I think would be fine at half his cap hit, but we still have a year to wait on, after moving Bonino and a 2nd for him. Bad move resigning him sight unseen too. Beagle and Roussel would be ideal at a million less or more.
Beagle takes faceoffs and has been at least a little bit intimidating, and Roussel throws players off their game. Elements we need, but they are without a doubt overpaid here. I'd still rather keep them and move others first. I know I'm in a minority here, but I feel these two do make our team better, and if they were the only cap problems, things would be fine.
Baertschi needs to play or be moved. I still feel he should have been in our top nine this year, but Leivo, Roussel, Virtanen, Gaudette, Motte and Mac all made cases for themselves, and I have no issue with him being moved on from....but we should move on from him.
Spooner's buyout ends this year. I agree it was a necessary evil.
Ferland should have been thought on a little more. Concussions are not fun, I know first hand, and it is something that can creep up later. It might be LTIRed, or he may retire if things are looking bleak enough, but I too have no issue with the player at the cap hit, just his injury history.
Bonus money is worth it, Luongo's cap recapture is garbage (we're the only team that will ever be hit by that) and I think we can fit Spooner into this category too. Dead cap happens.
I agree it's awful management, and each one of these points compounds the others. I wouldn't have minded this if we were awful for another year or two, but it's become so much more pressing with the ELCs coming off the books next year too. If Demko or Virtanen or both are needed as scapegoats, to be burdened with the mistakes of the team and led outside the village, so be it. I don't want to move out either, but if it has to be done to save the rest...I mean that's a lot of evil we've discussed, in cap terms.