Captain Controversy
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It does not matter if Bouchard can only have 0.50 PPG. It is about the roster makeup.
By my calculation, the Oilers will have around $26 M in cap space for next summer. The notable players that will need a contract will be Nugent-Hopkins, Yamamoto, Barrie, and Larsson. Here are there baseline numbers for me:
Nugent-Hopkins - $6 M
Barrie - $6 M
Yamamoto - $3.5 M
Larsson - $3.5 M
= $7 M leftover without factoring in the contracts for Khaira, Kahun, Ennis, and Haas:
Khaira - $1 M
Ennis - $1 M
Haas - $ 1M
= 4 M
How are we going to get address the other holes on our roster? If your answer is to buyout Neal, we will need to re-sign Nurse, Puljujarvi and Bear next offseason.
This ain't it.
Oilers roster next year.
Drai 8.5 McDavid 12.5 Yamamoto 3.5
Hall 6.25 Nuge 6.25 puljujarvi 1.175
Holloway 1, McLeod 1, Archibald 1.5
Khaira 1.5, Hass 1.5, ????
Nurse 5.6 - Barrie 5.25 ?
Lagasson 1 - Larsson 4.5
Samourukov 1 - Bouchard 1
Klefbom LTIR
Trade koskinen
Trade kassian
Buyout Neal
Trade Bear ?
Should have enough room to re-sign Barrie ?