Rick Blight

It is good to hear that Dutch is doing well and I wish him all the best in beating this disease. I am currently dealing with the same thing. Six months ago I had a positive biopsy for prostate cancer and three weeks ago had a prostatectomy. None of this is fun and I would also urge everyone to get their PSA bloodwork done on a regular basis and ensure abnormal reading are referred to a urologist for early detection.

Geez, I didn't realize they had done that well..........

You are asking Bo to take all the risk in this scenario. What happens if he has a career ending injury next year? He risks losing $50M or so if this were to happen. I think you simply make your deal with Bo before this season starts to avoid distractions and look to see how you manage your 2023/24 cap after the fact.

Yes, they are included.

The Oilers signed CM after he was convicted of vehicular homicide............ Oh, you're not talking about Craig MacTavish......

I'm guessing one of Calgary, Dallas or Anaheim.

I can see the Oilers using 2023 draft picks to entice Arizona/Chicago to take on any or all of Barrie/Foegele/Smith. That would allow them to get below the cap and add league minimum contracts to fill out their roster.

Nick Suzuki on Montreal is one of the worst contracts in the league?

Not claiming it is a bonus. The simple fact is that Klefbom's salary of $4,167,000 and Smith's salary of $2,200,000 are included in the Oiler's projected Cap Hit of $85,431,333. This currently means they are over the Salary Cap of $82.5M by $2,931,333. If Smith does retire his salary will come off the $85,431,333 and their Cap hit would then be $83,231,333. If Klefbom is placed on LTIR prior to the start of the season, as expected, the Oilers would be able to exceed the Cap by up to $4,167,000 as long as he remains on LTIR. This is no different than the situation with Micheal Ferland on the Canucks where the Canucks currently show in excess of the Cap by $2.75M but will become Cap compliant when they place Ferland on LTIR prior to the start of the season. Training-Camp Equation Example The league upper limit is $69M. A team has an averaged club salary of $71M and a player with a cap hit of $5M ($5M cap hit, $0 in performance bonuses) becomes injured and the team places him on LTIR. The LTIR relief pools are calculated as follows: Team cap hit = $71M ACSL = $71M - $5M = $66M LTIR relief: Base salary relief pool: $5M Performance bonus pool: $0 Once the team operates above $66M, they have $5M in salary relief, and $0 in performance bonus relief pools. When using the training camp formula, 100% of the relief pools are used when the player is initially placed on LTIR. https://www.capfriendly.com/ltir-faq#exceed-limit-estimation

They will be LTIR before the season starts. Klefbom is likely never going to play again.

They have Klefbom's LTIR and Smith's potential for retirement/LTIR that could potentially give them an additional $6.4M. They only have 19 players signed so it will be difficult for them in any event.

Tampa is now $4.5M below the cap for the 2023/24 season..............but they only have 13 players signed!

You're asking yourself the wrong question, Jan. You should be asking "will OEL waive his NMC to play for the Islanders when he has repeatedly said he only wants to play in Vancouver or Boston"?

A couple of big bodied former 1st round picks that will likely soon be signed to league minimum type contracts by teams against the cap. Arizona could also sign them at league minimum hoping they can flip them at the trade deadline.

I believe Utunen's agent was informed by the Canucks that they would not be signing him while the Persson situation is just a rumour at this point. Having said that, they do invite players that are not their property so I guess they could technically invite either or both of them if they chose to do so.

I think you might be thinking of Toni Utunen

Jan, I have no idea of what the definition of a re-building team is these days but aren't there about 20 or so of them every year? Given that number, and assuming they all buy into your plan, how the heck does everyone get the 5 high draft picks in each round over a 5 year period? Again, this strategy would mean 20 teams would never trade away picks so where would these extra picks come from? You would have 20 teams all looking to add picks from 12 teams? Veteran players and some younger players on these re-building teams would all request trades if management proclaims they are throwing the towel in for 5 years. I assume you consider the Canucks to be a re-building team so would you think Hughes, Pettersson, Boeser, Demko, Horvat, Podkolzin, Hoglander would all be okay with this strategy being employed by Rutherford? My bet is that every one of them would request a trade.......would you be okay with that to start your 5 year plan? I understand the concept and would certainly agree with some of what you say but I don't think the process is anywhere close to being this clean. I guess it could be though if you were the only team employing this strategy

The guy is big, almost McDavid fast, kills penalties and scored 21 goals....how much would you be willing to pay? I would be willing to go as high as $3M per for 5 years.....

That's what Mikheyev said.........

Along with calling Sedin "a low life," he also uttered the strangest collection of words on an NHL broadcast this season when he said, "Oh my God and now the Sedin's are pointing fingers. Usually they only use those fingers to lick the peanut butter off of their bread."Jan 13, 2016

Tampa challenges you for every foot of ice, 1st to almost every loose puck and absolutely finish every check. Combine that with out of this world goaltending and their "Champion" mental toughness and it is hard to see the Avalanche winning this series. As Stamkos says "this is the hardest thing you will ever do" and the Avs need to realize this and in a hurry.

Hope that McLeod, Poolparty and Yamamoto all want substantial increases. I would really like to get McLeod on our team. He is big, really fast and kills penalties well. They are going to have a lot of players making league minimum next year.

I would not have Hathaway or Walker on my team. I think I would replace them with Trevor Moore (or Frank Vtrano) and Artyom Zub.

Are you sure you didn't mean Barclay Goodrow? Sorry, see you have him on the 4th line....my bad.

If you are talking Johnny Gaudreau he was a 4th round pick of the Flames. Frederick Gaudreau was undrafted but I am not sure he should be on this team.