Vin Tanner wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:05 pm
I didn’t mention Tyler Myers
And on no decent team is Tanner PeRson a #6 forward.
Nice try though Skippy
Sorry, I forgot you like to stick your head in the sand and pretend Myers isn't a #2 defenceman on this team, because you've got a boner for Schmidt.
Hm, I wonder what it is about Schmidt you like so much...perhaps his hairstyling ability to cover up his quarter?
Schmidt is signed through age 34, maybe by then he'll be able to kill penalties. Because with the team's 2nd-highest cap hit, you'd expect a bit more than a guy playing #5 minutes most nights.
Madcombinepilot wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:49 am
Our problem is the bloated contracts to Rousel, Sutter and Louise. Once those 3 are gone (and Beagle and Ferklund are perma LTIR), we are fine.. especially when Luongo, Beartschi and Spooner fall off.
I think we're fine after this season. There's $3.3 mil in "Non-roster" cap coming off this year with Baertschi and Spooner. Next year there's $9 million with Loui and Luongo.
Next year, there's $4.375 coming off with Sutter, who is a 50% roster player. The year following is $6 mil for Roussel and Beagle coming off the books.
Plus, sad to say, but Petey's play has knocked $4-5 mil off our worst-case cap hit fears of $11+.
But guys, can we please just wrap our head around the concept that if you want improved forward depth, you need to pay more for forwards? You can't have one top-line and 9 Leivos on the ice. When those contracts go, you either have to pay up to replace them with better players, or replace them with worse waiver-wire players.
If the plan is to have Miller, Petey and Horvat line up 1-2-3 at centre, that makes replacing Sutter simple. You then have a $5.5 mil #3C, but that's fine when it's Horvat. I don't recall who first suggested that, but with a rookie top-6 winger coming up this year and next, this has a lot of appeal.
Having 2 top-6 fowards on ELCs sure is nice.