seanlinden
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It’s not going to come anywhere near that. As I’ve already pointed (no pun intended) out we can afford to pay Point $7-8M with relatively little trouble. We’ll ask him to take a cheaper bridge, but if he says he wants that five-year deal we’ll give it to him and be done with it. He doesn’t seem like the type to play hardball with us and we aren’t going to be stupid enough to play hardball with him. Unless he decides to be completely unreasonable (which would be out of character for him) we’re not going to get anywhere close to a Nylander situation here.
I guess it comes down to your assessment of "relatively little trouble".
Callahan at 50% retained is certainly an easy trade, but I'd say that he's worth more than $2.9m to the Bolts.
Assuming an $83.5m cap, they've got 15 players signed and about $10m to work with and 8 roster spots to fill. That ignores the possibility of Point, Sergachev, and the other ELCs picking up a few performance bonuses and shrinking that.
Let's say point takes $7m. That leaves $3m to fill 7 spots, which obviously isn't possible. Even if you subtract Callahan at say, $4m, you're left with $7m to fill 8 roster spots, plus the 4 players Tampa already has making less than $1m. Without subtracting at least one of the $4-5m guys, it would mean that Tampa would have 12 players on it's roster (half the team on any given night) making less than $1m.
From a defensive standpoint, it would likely mean that all of Coburn, Girardi, and Stralman are gone.