[Proposal] Ideal Offseason

[Chickenspear]

Trades/Transactions:

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2022 2nd for Seattle to take Roussel:  We could make the roster work by just burying him in the minors with Loui, but I'd rather have some breathing room for recalls/bonuses/additions.

 

Schmidt+4th for Lauzon+2nd: Boston gets an experienced top 4 PMD to help push their current core a couple more seasons, Vancouver gets a solid 5/6 shutdown D, and cap space. I see Rathbone as an Schmidt replacement who should stick with the roster this coming season. Experience for our young guys in key these next couple seasons.

 

 9OA+Woo for Cernak+Johnson (25% retained): Cernak is that rare unicorn RHD everyone keeps talking about, so we should definitely make a push for him. Gets Tampa under the cap, recoups their 1st round pick, allows them to protect Sergachev and Foote in addition to Hedman, while giving them an expansion draft exempt RHD prospect who should be ready in a year or 2. Gives us our ideal Hughes partner, plus Johnson at $3.75m, who can still put up ~0.50 ppg playing a reduced role on Tampa. The buyout on Johnson the following season isn't that bad either, should he not work out.

 

Left some cap space for some leeway in the Hughes/Pettersson contract extensions, but this is what I hope will happen. Team friendly bridge deals, with the possibility of the flat cap recovering a bit in that time.

 

Sign Wennberg as 3C in UFA, as well as Hakanpää as a depth piece.

 

Jake is the obvious buyout candidate. Could open up more space with other buyouts, should we need to.

 

Left Beagle in the lineup. Not sure what's going to happen with his injury, but would rather account for his cap hit if he doesn't start on LTIR. If he is, we could sign or trade for a 4C

 

Cap space opens up the following offseason, when we can start to make a strong push as a competitive playoff team.

 

Roster:

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Long Term Outlook:

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Flame away.

[Elias Pettersson]

I'm totally onboard with getting Cernak and Hakanpaa and trading Schmidt.  It's just a question of the money and what assets are coming and leaving...