Unpopular opinion but Boston isn't going to the final. They blew their wad during the regulars season like most President trophy winners. Since the Presidents trophy was awarded in 1986 only 8 of those teams won the Cup with another 3 losing in the Cup final. They also got to get past the winner of Toronto/Tampa which will be a war and have those team ready for the next round while the Bruins will most likely walk over their 1st round opponent.
You might be right, but regardless of who we play adding for a playoff run is something that should still be on GMKH's radar.
We simply have no depth either. Not a lot of people are talking about the fact that we've had no injuries to the backend.
We won't have to worry about the cap in the playoffs which would give Woodcroft the option of 12-6 or 11-7. Then you would have Broberg, Desharnais, Murray as the subs. If we go out and add a RD like Schenn to go with Gurianov then you could sit one of Barrie, Bouchard or Ceci if they're playing bad or get injured.
Correct. If we have good goaltending, the forwards do what they have done and we add a vet or two and a top 4 dman.....who knows, could go on a run.
My understanding is that your comment is only accurate for LTIR activations we would still need a cap compliant roster before they start and carrying Kulak, Gavrikov, Broberg, Barrie, nurse, ceci, Bouchard, desharnais, Murray in your situation before even considering you said to add schenn. That is next to impossible to even hold the number of forwards, being 12 that you mentioned, to be cap compliant in our last game unless you blew up our forward core of a high paid player or two meaning more than just a 3M guy.
McCabe was promised a competitive CHI team and is pretty much waiting to get out of there the first chance he gets on a winning team.
Provorov is an underpayment.
I don't know why he brings shit like this up. I highly doubt anyone from the team is feeding him this either.
You would have to send down the waiver eligible players but if you added Schenn and Gavrikov then they wouldn't be in the lineup anyways. I'd feel more confident going into the playoffs running the 11-7 setup with Nurse, Gavrikov, Kulak on the left and Ceci, Barrie, Schenn, Bouchard on the right. Schenn makes near league minimum and Gavrikov at 50% is only 1.4 million. You send JP the other way and the cap works with some to spare.
You could offer a 1st, Barrie and JP. And Philly still wouldn't do it.
But that's probably more to with them not needing Barrie and JP not having much if any value.
That is not enough for Provorov. Problem with acquiring a $6m+ defenseman is that multiple contracts have to be shipped out. Looking at Kulak + 2 of either Yamo/PJ/Foegele to fits in the salary cap. I can't see retention for either Ekholm or Provorov because of the term left on their deals, and neither team would want Barrie cause they already have that type of player. So Kulak + 2 of + picks. Ekholm is probably the best fit right now but has the risk of falling off a cliff. Provorov has red flags, a couple of poor seasons and may not get his PP time here. And isn't the defensive wall we're looking for.
A young guy can certainly outperform. But didn't they add Manson at the deadline?
This is essentially my thinking almost exactly. In regards to Provorov and Ekholm with sizeable cap hits, I wonder how much their teams value cap space and if we could get a very good deal value wise if we were able to take on either of their full cap hits without sending cap back or needing retention. With the exception of Foegele, I think you could move all of Jesse, Yamamoto, Kulak for some sort of value or at the very least it having to pay to unload them, so if you could get a smoking deal value wise on say Ekholm and then create the space needed in separate deals, that could work out better for us depending on what we got back for the players we’re sending out.
Who are you taking off the back end next year to make this work? Barrie?
