Salary Cap: Kapanen's next contract

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Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kapanen, Kasperi $4,250,000 RW RFA	Matthews, Auston $11,000,000 C RFA	Nylander, William $6,500,000 RW
Hyman, Zach $2,250,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Tavares, John $11,000,000 C NMC UFA - 6	Marner, Mitchell $8,000,000 RW RFA
Grundström, Carl $925,000 LW RFA - 1	Kadri, Nazem $4,500,000 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Johnsson, Andreas $1,500,000 LW
Leivo, Josh $1,500,000 LW	Gauthier, Frédérik $675,000 C RFA - 1	Brown, Connor $2,100,000 RW RFA - 1

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Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000 D UFA - 3	Dermott, Travis $863,333 D RFA - 1	Andersen, Frederik $5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Gardiner, Jake $6,000,000 D	Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000 D M-NTC UFA - 5	McElhinney, Curtis $900,000 G
Borgman, Andreas $1,500,000 D	Liljegren, Timothy $894,166 D RFA - 2

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Assuming the Cap Hits 81,000,000, the leafs still have just under $1,000,000 to play with, while icing a pretty great team, trading Willy for Pesce would save another $2,000,000

Marleau gets traded to the sharks in this scenario

PP1

TAVARES
MATTHEWS - KADRI - MARNER
RIELLY

PP2

KAPANEN - NYLANDER - JOHNSSON
LILJIGREN - GARDINER

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[nuck]

I guess we'll see about the halfway point.

Barzal only has 12 in 13 GP, so I guess he is just a nice player too?

Barzal's goal production this year is more like what you would have expected given his junior numbers. He had 10g in 47 games as a 19 year old.

More secondary assists than primary so far and barely over 1 sog per game. He appears to be having a difficult learning curve away from Tavares shadow when thwe team as a whole is doing great. Five 3 point games and three 5 point games last season says he will bust out at some point. An interesting player to watch.

 

[Gallagbi]

If he hits 60 points this year then perhaps the Ehlers contract. Everyone's favourite comparable for that style of player and output range (20+ goals +35 assists)

Kappy is taking full advantage of his opportunity from the Nylander situation to pile up the points in his absence in a contract year.

But lots of this is all linked directly to what happens with Nylander, as if Willy returns to the team and plays with Matthews that means Kappy will be a 3rd line RW at best and 40-45 points.

Didn't Ehlers have back-to-back 60+ seasons? Isn't he also the same age as Kap? Looks like Ehlers scored more as a rookie than Kap has in his career to this point too. Not sure they're the most comparable players, even with a 60 point season for Kap assumed this year.

 

[MJ65]

He has only played 14 games and was far from proven. Way too early to judge, and just ask Nylander how much leverage Kap will have in his negotiation.

You haven't read all of my post as I said it's going to be on merit