put together a mock lineup using a few trade ideas that have been getting tossed about just to see what It might look like
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michael trades krecji and krug and boychuck and mcquaid and campbell to get cap compliant
FORWARDS
Brad Marchand ($4.500m) / Patrice Bergeron ($6.500m) / Reilly Smith ($3.000m)
Milan Lucic ($6.000m) / Carl Soderberg ($1.008m) / Loui Eriksson ($4.250m)
Colin Wilson ($2.000m) / Ryan Spooner ($0.760m) / Alex Chiasson ($0.867m)
Daniel Paille ($1.300m) / Chris Kelly ($3.000m) / Luke Gazdic ($0.750m)
Alexander Khokhlachev ($0.787m) / Bobby Robins ($0.600m) /
DEFENSEMEN
Zdeno Chara ($6.917m) / Dougie Hamilton ($0.894m)
Roman Josi ($4.000m) / Dennis Seidenberg ($4.000m)
Matt Bartkowski ($1.750m) / Kevan Miller ($0.800m)
David Warsofsky ($0.660m) /
GOALTENDERS
Tuukka Rask ($7.000m)
Niklas Svedberg ($0.600m)
LTIR
Marc Savard ($4.027m)
BONUS OVERAGE
$4,750,000
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(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $69,000,000; CAP PAYROLL: $66,692,500; BONUSES: $850,833
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $2,307,500
the trades I was thinking of were krejci and maybe krug or boychuk if hes willing to extend to Nashville for Wilson/josi. i think we might have to add because josi is very good and on a great contract. its obviously a huge downgrade at center but I think its a significant upgrade on defense over krug as our offensive catalyst guy that can actually play 20-22 mins a night... and a great incoming contract. Wilson was the rumored center piece in the proposed kessel trade so I think boston management likes him and he is only 24 despite seeming like hes been around forever.
once josi is in to play top 4... boychuk does become expendable. im thinking maybe use him to get chiasson and something back from dallas. boston management is rumored to be very high on chiasson. if boychuk is already gone to Nashville than use a pick/prospect. dallas is loaded with guys like chiasson and need a young center.
I think one way or the other both krug and boychuk need to be moved if we get a top 4 guy here with a long term deal that can play with Seidenberg/Hamilton/chara
once we move both guys... it makes more sense to bring bartowski back if his contract is reasonable. he has been improving and is a 20 min per night guy when we play him. im ok with him on the bottom pair
there is no great need to trade mcquaid other than cap management and if we don't bring back bartowski than id keep mcquaid but in my opinion miller is ready to bottom 6 and is a lot cheaper than mcquaid so I think mcquaid moves. Campbell also doesn't have to be dealt either for any special reason other than we don't need both him and Kelly and I guess Kelly is more difficult for us to move.
I want cap room so I can make some deadline moves during the season and try to gear up for a cup run so leaving the cap room here is intentional.
I believe this lineup gives our kids some chance to play but still keeps enough of the core around that we will make the playoffs comfortably. when the cap jumps next season we have room for a lot of improvement.
I think the pieces im adding give good value for the spots im slotting them and maintain depth which is the key to our chances of winning... we win with depth.
id love iginla to take a one year deal and stay too... id be willing to give up the cap space if he was