Rumor: Salary Cap Could Be Up To 88 Million in 2020-21
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Hammettf2b
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I've always been a fan making a big signing (not a signing that spends a lot of money AKA Holland and his long term contracts to mediocre players, but a signing of a big time player if available) to help expedite the rebuild. It's free assets after all. I think its very rare a team is able to contend on just their draft picks alone.
What's the minimum number of players we can run out there? Probably need one more D-Man and one more goalie and I'm good running 6 forwards, 2 D-Men, and two goalies. COuldn't be worst than what we have now.
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RedMenace
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Time to take other teams horrible contracts for some beautiful 1st round picks
Why have one $10 million dollar goalie when you can have two?
We could have 80 million in cap space and still not sign anyone. Free agent signings are a two way street, can't force anyone to come here unless they massively overpay, which isn't a good tactic either. I'd honestly just wait, sign a goalie to split time with Bernier next year, sign a LHD that can play top 4 and sign the RFAs. Other than that, I'd wait one more year before making a significant free agency push.
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This. Target teams in either a serious crunch in terms of trying to resign their RFA's or are in the contending window that need to free up space who are going to need space to work with to land an impact FA.
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Looking at the upcoming UFA market, there are only 3 players that seem worth signing to serious contacts, Alex Pietrangelo, Taylor Hall, and Tyson Barrie, and I doubt anyone of these guys will be willing to come to Detroit. On the other hand, I do like this idea:
I mean that's a good point. And why stop there. Jimmy Howard announces a $10M extension to take over as the goaltending coach.
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Be a good year to invest in more young, low risk, high reward type players... Over seas UFAs and players on 1 year contracts looking to bounce back. Leave lots of cap space to take on salary when the rest of the NHL teams put themselves into salary cap crunches.
Move the 1 year deals at the deadline if they are worthy like we did with Vanek the first try.. Worst case we hope they are better leaders than our current group for the youth movement. The overseas UFAs can boom or bust back home, as long as we leave room for internal growth and movement into the big leagues.
No sense in investing huge money into UFAs next summer unless they are truly elite or Yzerman thinks they can fit into the core somehow long term. Flexibility is something we haven't had for a long time and cap space is as big of an asset in the cap era as a player is at times.
Move the 1 year deals at the deadline if they are worthy like we did with Vanek the first try.. Worst case we hope they are better leaders than our current group for the youth movement. The overseas UFAs can boom or bust back home, as long as we leave room for internal growth and movement into the big leagues.
No sense in investing huge money into UFAs next summer unless they are truly elite or Yzerman thinks they can fit into the core somehow long term. Flexibility is something we haven't had for a long time and cap space is as big of an asset in the cap era as a player is at times.
Henkka
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That's what Yzerman did at first years at Tampa. Signed UFA veterans around a young core.
I see us getting a defenceman, speedy center and a 1B goalie.
Torey Krug + Erik Haula + Tomas Greiss, combined ~17 million.
A "big time player" is not coming to Detroit as a UFA without an obscene overpayment in dollars and term.
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But Dmen can play more minutes than forwards. Just make it 3 and they can rotate.
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That's just like, your opinion, man.
jkutswings
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Rather than one big target, I'd love to see a pair of legit second tier defensemen in free agency. There's probably a couple of other stay-at-home types I'm missing, but I'm curious what combination of Brodie/Vatanen/Hamonic/Shattenkirk would be willing to go to Detroit, and at what price.
Add two legit NHL players, get DDK healthy, have Hronek with a year under his belt, Nemeth (and everybody else) gets properly slotted, Lindstrom has shown flashes, maybe even bring up Seider at some point... suddenly you go from historically awful to at least tolerable on defense.
Add two legit NHL players, get DDK healthy, have Hronek with a year under his belt, Nemeth (and everybody else) gets properly slotted, Lindstrom has shown flashes, maybe even bring up Seider at some point... suddenly you go from historically awful to at least tolerable on defense.
RedMenace
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We could easily take on Bob's contract if necessary...
I guess that's fair; can't have all your cap tied up, after all. Gotta leave room for that one injury that will likely never happen to the Wings.
It's just a shitty beer, shouldn't have too much impact on the salary cap.
Oh, the other one. Right.
I'd throw a big contract at Piet, but no thanks to the other two. I'm still banging the Kyle Turris drum, and the rest can be used for a goalie and RFAs.
