Speculation: The Sharks are going for the cup next season. How do they proceed?

[Juxtaposer]

Pitkanen is totally roasted. Can't even get his foot in a skate as of a week ago.

 

[KarlssonsGroin]

Am I the only one who found it hilarious how DW gave Brown a bigger value contract than the Ducks gave Heatley?

It's even more funny when you think he gave Burish 180% Heatleys salary in a lower cap time

 

[Gigante]

I have this sinking feeling in my gut that we are going to proceed along the following for our opening night roster:

CapGeek Armchair GM Roster
FORWARDS
Patrick Marleau ($6.667m) / Logan Couture ($6.000m) / Matt Nieto ($0.759m)
Joe Pavelski ($6.000m) / Tomas Hertl ($0.925m) / Tommy Wingels ($2.475m)
Raffi Torres ($2.000m) / Joe Thornton ($6.750m) / Tyler Kennedy ($2.350m)
James Sheppard ($1.300m) / Andrew Desjardins ($0.750m) / Mike Brown ($1.200m)
John Scott ($0.700m) / Adam Burish ($1.850m) /
DEFENSEMEN
Marc-Edouard Vlasic ($4.250m) / Brent Burns ($5.760m)
Mirco Mueller ($0.894m) / Justin Braun ($1.250m)
Konrad Abeltshauser ($0.633m) / Jason Demers ($3.333m)
Matt Irwin ($1.000m) /
GOALTENDERS
Antti Niemi ($3.800m)
Alex Stalock ($1.600m)
BUYOUTS
Martin Havlat ($0.000m)
BONUS OVERAGE
$175,000
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $69,000,000; CAP PAYROLL: $62,421,667; BONUSES: $1,132,500
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $6,578,333

I like to think Kennedy won't be here since he hasn't fit in well with your system and he should have value elsewhere. But really, I'm an optimist - if I were wagering money I still think I'd go with him being gone by beginning of season, but not by much. The biggest hole in that roster is D - I'm not sure what I'll think of DW goes into the seasons till not addressing our needs on D.

 

[Nolan11]

I like to think Kennedy won't be here since he hasn't fit in well with your system and he should have value elsewhere. But really, I'm an optimist - if I were wagering money I still think I'd go with him being gone by beginning of season, but not by much. The biggest hole in that roster is D - I'm not sure what I'll think of DW goes into the seasons till not addressing our needs on D.

I would hope he and burish would both be gone. Even so, add tye McGinn in Kennedy's place. Still no room for Hamilton or tierney to challenge for a spot. Something has got to give

Anxiously awaiting the first domino to fall.

 

[Gigante]

I would hope he and burish would both be gone. Even so, add tye McGinn in Kennedy's place. Still no room for Hamilton or tierney to challenge for a spot. Something has got to give

Anxiously awaiting the first domino to fall.

Agreed - I was surprised no buyout was used on Burish. Can't see another team wanting him at his salary hit - maybe we'd retain some salary and deal him, but still not sure if he's attractive at $1M.

 

[hockfan1991]

Agreed - I was surprised no buyout was used on Burish. Can't see another team wanting him at his salary hit - maybe we'd retain some salary and deal him, but still not sure if he's attractive at $1M.

He will never be attractive at any cost. He looks like the cyclops from krull.

 

[Gilligans Island]

With Demers electing for arbitration, don't we still have a buyout window? Not like we need cap space to do a compliance buy out, a regular one would be fine.

That said, I can't see DW doing a buyout on either Burish or Kennedy even though it would make sense so youngsters have a better chance

 

[Pinkfloyd]

With Demers electing for arbitration, don't we still have a buyout window? Not like we need cap space to do a compliance buy out, a regular one would be fine.

That said, I can't see DW doing a buyout on either Burish or Kennedy even though it would make sense so youngsters have a better chance

I don't think Burish or Kennedy qualify for the second buyout window due to their salary. I think in the second window, they have to have a salary at or over 2.75 million.

 

[SJGoalie32]

With Demers electing for arbitration, don't we still have a buyout window? Not like we need cap space to do a compliance buy out, a regular one would be fine.

That said, I can't see DW doing a buyout on either Burish or Kennedy even though it would make sense so youngsters have a better chance

Since when does making sense have anything to do with this team's transactions?

Sharks roadmap to success.....Fire Randy Hahn + Change uniform colors to red & white + trade Bracken Kearns for a 7th round pick in 2016 draft + Increase parking lot rates by $5 =

Guranteed.

 

[zombie kopitar]

Since when does making sense have anything to do with this team's transactions?

Sharks roadmap to success.....Fire Randy Hahn + Change uniform colors to red & white + trade Bracken Kearns for a 7th round pick in 2016 draft + Increase parking lot rates by $5 =

Guranteed.

hmm don't know if it won't work unless we try


I think they should trade for Leddy, take in Bickell to help their cap problems.
Kennedy, Sheppard/pick and Tennyson/Teirny? Would do.

 

[hohosaregood]

Bartkowski signed. Another poach target off the list for anyone who cared.

BTW All the threads are starting to kinda merge together. Essentially the same conversations going on in like half the threads. I'm starting to lose track of what's going on where.

 

[AgentCooper]

Bartkowski signed. Another poach target off the list for anyone who cared.

BTW All the threads are starting to kinda merge together. Essentially the same conversations going on in like half the threads. I'm starting to lose track of what's going on where.

Totally agree. We've got two rebuild threads, a tanking thread, and a rosterbation thread. It's getting very hard to keep track of everything.

 

[Nolan11]

Totally agree. We've got two rebuild threads, a tanking thread, and a rosterbation thread. It's getting very hard to keep track of everything.

Close Em all, start another all-purpose off season thread?

 

[Barrie22]

Close Em all, start another all-purpose off season thread?

just close the entire board until the season starts, no matter what this board is just gonna spin circles going back and forth about every little thing possible.

 

[hohosaregood]

just close the entire board until the season starts, no matter what this board is just gonna spin circles going back and forth about every little thing possible.

Same thing happens during the season too.

 

[Barrie22]

Same thing happens during the season too.

It is less then this and by a huge margin.

Every week a new thread pops up with a new wording for the direction that the sharks are going.

 

[hohosaregood]

It is less then this and by a huge margin.

Every week a new thread pops up with a new wording for the direction that the sharks are going.

I guess since we have no real info to go off of, it just turns into massive amounts of speculation.

 

[hockeyball]

I guess since we have no real info to go off of, it just turns into massive amounts of speculation.

Pretty much.

Hey at least I've mostly shut up, I've been way too busy at work to spend any time here. I got a completely new $500k server infrastructure approved (all new servers, storage, network) and I'm going to be spending the entire off-season planning an implementing that.

So, you are welcome

 

[5H4RK5]

I have this sinking feeling in my gut that we are going to proceed along the following for our opening night roster:

CapGeek Armchair GM Roster
FORWARDS
Patrick Marleau ($6.667m) / Logan Couture ($6.000m) / Matt Nieto ($0.759m)
Joe Pavelski ($6.000m) / Tomas Hertl ($0.925m) / Tommy Wingels ($2.475m)
Raffi Torres ($2.000m) / Joe Thornton ($6.750m) / Tyler Kennedy ($2.350m)
James Sheppard ($1.300m) / Andrew Desjardins ($0.750m) / Mike Brown ($1.200m)
John Scott ($0.700m) / Adam Burish ($1.850m) /
DEFENSEMEN
Marc-Edouard Vlasic ($4.250m) / Brent Burns ($5.760m)
Mirco Mueller ($0.894m) / Justin Braun ($1.250m)
Konrad Abeltshauser ($0.633m) / Jason Demers ($3.333m)
Matt Irwin ($1.000m) /
GOALTENDERS
Antti Niemi ($3.800m)
Alex Stalock ($1.600m)
BUYOUTS
Martin Havlat ($0.000m)
BONUS OVERAGE
$175,000
------
CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $69,000,000; CAP PAYROLL: $62,421,667; BONUSES: $1,132,500
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $6,578,333

That looks like a good roster to start the season and with space to make moves. Copy and paste DW.