And regret it every single day after.
Be a pretty big hole to fill.
Not sure what people think they're getting for 4-5m anymore
Seeing how in a 64.4m cap world with a 22 man roster it works out to 2.9m average per player.
I'd say a 4m/5m hit better get you something above average. Because who ever you bring in will have to be a below average player to make up for the 1.1m/2.1m per over average that Boz is taking in.
Well gonna be hard to do when Dion,Grabo,Kess,Lups,JVR,Liles(Army,Tuck) eat up over 11 full roster allotments, with only 6 warm bodies.
You need 5 players at 0 cap hit to offset that average.
Right now we have an average of 1.9m per(19m) ,over the 10 contracts we need next year.
Kadri,Gunnar,Frans are all going to come in at well above that 1.9m average. If we are lucky we lock down those 3 for 10m combined.
Leaving 9m to get 7 guys under contract.
Kamo,Fras,McLem come in at 3m combined?
Leaving 6m to get 4 contracts in.
Leaving
Orr,Boz,Mac,O'Byrn,Hamilton,Kost
still as UFAs and Colb as a RFA.
Orr gets 1m= no raise?
Colb 1m= 125k over his base sal now?
Riellys base is just under 1m.
Leaving 3m for 1 contract and no cap space. Leaving Boz,Mac,Hammer and Kost as UFAs.
7.5m for 1 contract if/when they amnesty Komi.
So lets say we lock down Boz at 4m, that leaves us with 3.5m cap left.
After next season UFAs are Dion(6.5),Kessel(5.5),Kuli(2.8),McLem(1.5)Scrivs(612k)
RFAs Reims(1.8) Gards(875k base)Frat(875k base) you see any names in there not due for a raise?
Now we would have 3.5m left over from the past season.
2m from Army,Tucker dropping off
and maybe 2m raise in cap?
So if lucky 7.5m to hand out raises.
Kess gets 2m more
Kuli 1m
McLem .5m
Reims 1.5m
leaving 2.5m to give raises to Dion,Gards,Frat,Scrivs.
So you see, we ain't all that cap flush as many like to boast about.
We will just have enough to keep the status quo, no more big star adds, no big UFAs, this will be our cup contending team for the foreseeable future.
So by the looks of it, to fit in the raises and add say 1 more star level(C) contract, we will need Boz in at proper 3rd line $ 2.5m ish AND amnesty/trade Grabos 5.5m.