The cap isn't the massive issue that it's painted to be. Getting through this next year is going to be tough-ish, but long term we have a pretty clean cap sheet.
We have 3 long term deals on the books right now (Panarin, Kreider, Trouba) and a butt load of space after next year. I know some of that chunk is going to be eaten by guys who get extended this year but there is plenty of room to keep the guys who you want to keep while still having wiggle room to make adds along the way.
The secondary players will come and go for the most part, thats just how it works in this league. But I don't know, I think that when you have guys who are top 4 in the league in scoring at their position and top 3 at ES, those are the guys you try to keep around unless you can get a similar player at a different position where you may be lacking or as a centerpiece for a bigger fish. Those deals are hard to find but if one happens to present itself then sure, I'm all ears.
Forget the Staalweights for a second, is there anyone here who would actually elect to keep Chytil/Buchnevich/Howden/Lindgren over DeAngelo? Because really at the end of the day it's going to come down to 2 of them vs DeAngelo salary wise.
There’s incredibly more nuance to the Tony conversation than simply summing it up as people “wanting to trade him”
And yet people continue to post that exact phrase in these threads multiples times a week lol
Can you blame them?
We had a proposal from one of our own fans a few pages back which involved moving him PLUS a 1st with 2 expiring UFA's and a prospect as the return.
Things like that make it seem like people want to move him just to move him.