Confirmed with Link: Ondrej Palat re-signed: 5 years, 5.3AAV

[Alex K]

Couldn't have gotten much better.

This contract leaves no cap space for Kucherov in two years.

 

[CupsOverCash]

This contract leaves no cap space for Kucherov in two years.

How do you figure that? We have Stralman, Coburn, and Girardi all coming off the books that year. Callahan the next year.

 

[More 2004]

This contract leaves no cap space for Kucherov in two years.

Multiple contracts come off the books and Cally will likely be bought out. Problem solved.

 

[JoVel]

Could've signed Drouin this off-season as well no sweat.

#captroubles

What Drouin would've asked from us most likely would have been insane

 

[Alex K]

How do you figure that? We have Stralman, Coburn, and Girardi all coming off the books that year. Callahan the next year.

Yes, but he will also need to sign Dotchin and Koekkoek, fill other defence spots and save money for Sergachev and Vasilevskiy. Anyway he's gonna have a lot of headaches.

 

[CupsOverCash]

Yes, but he will also need to sign Dotchin and Koekkoek, fill other defence spots and save money for Sergachev and Vasilevskiy. Anyway he's gonna have a lot of headaches.

I've seen worse problems.

 

[Lord Stan 2020]

I've seen worse problems.

lol agreed after what hes done in last three seasons feels like easy street

thinking of daryl hahahaa go thewalkingdead

 

[LightningStrikes]

Solid deal!

 

[Houdas]

ohhhh yeaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

....uhm, sorry. Nice, good deal.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Nice deal for Drej.

 

[jfc64]

This contract leaves no cap space for Kucherov in two years.

No worries, lurker's gonna raise the cap. And Dan G disappear. Plus, Hoochie-Coochie already makes dough.

 

[Steazy Doo]

No worries, lurker's gonna raise the cap. And Dan G disappear. Plus, Hoochie-Coochie already makes dough.

Word for word what I was about to post.

 

[Hoek]

We'll do whatever it takes to sign Kucherov, but it shouldn't have to be much with all the money coming off the books.

 

[Hockeyfan02]

Very fair contracts for him and Johnson.

 

[dbieon12]

Is the AAV higher because the term is shorter than Johnson's? I can't understand why his value is 10% higher than TJ.

 

[Hoek]

Is the AAV higher because the term is shorter than Johnson's? I can't understand why his value is 10% higher than TJ.

Yes. He decided not to make the same tradeoff TJ did I assume.

 

[CupsOverCash]

Yes. He decided not to make the same tradeoff TJ did I assume.

It's an opportunity for him to get another decent contract before his body catches up. Palat seems like a guy who will be around a long time. A hossa type.

 

[DFC]

It's an opportunity for him to get another decent contract before his body catches up. Palat seems like a guy who will be around a long time. A hossa type.

Hossa's kind of a rare animal though. Palat's smart about the way he engages physically, but he still engages, and those guys can wear down. But, at 31-32, even if he's started to slow down, some team is likely to give him the benefit of the doubt and hand him another big contract.

In Johnson's case, it makes a lot of sense for him to take all the term he could get. He just seems like a guy whose career, or at least the effective part of it, is one outstretched knee away from being over.

 

[BoltzManConstant]

Yes, but he will also need to sign Dotchin and Koekkoek, fill other defence spots and save money for Sergachev and Vasilevskiy. Anyway he's gonna have a lot of headaches.

I'm not seeing the headaches. We've got $3.25m in cap space as it is. If cap grows just $1m/yr, then without even looking at other contracts we'll have space to bump Kuch from $4.75m AAV to $10m AAV. That should do it.

And then over the next two years we'll have a total $15m coming off the books between Sustr, Stralman, Coburn, Kunitz, and Girardi. Of course we'll need bodies to replace those guys, and some guys will need raises (Point, hopefully Dotchin, Koekkoek, Gourde, and Namestnikov). But the money's there to get it all done.

Vailevskiy comes up the next year, at which point we have $5.8m from Callahan and $1.8 from Carle's buyout coming off the books, plus whatever the cap grows.

So we're pretty much out of cap jail now. It came at a cost, of course, and everyone who said we couldn't keep all our guys was right -- the key move to getting out of cap jail was giving up on signing Drouin. But that decision's in the past, and Yzerman has room to maneuver now.

 

[Oxbow Lakes]

Solid deal, like it more than TJ's contract.

Now if he wouldn't struggle in the first half of season...