Vin Tanner wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 11:20 am
Chef Boi RD wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 10:49 am
Vin Tanner wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 10:47 am
Chef Boi RD wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 10:40 am
What happens with Landeskog this off season, he turns 29 in November? He’s a UFA this summer, I’m sure he will get a raise from his current $5.5 per year deal and wants term and protection. Sakic will have to give Makar somewhere between $8 snd $10 million, this summer, Sakic also has to think about McKinnon who is a UFA after just 2 seasons that will most likely make the 2nd highest paid player in the league. I wonder if this is why the Sedins were brought on board? Landeskog and OEL lures?
Avs might have to say their byes to Landeskog
Landy and Hampus. OEL is not necessary. Landy would set a cap for Bo and Miller.
I like Gabriel but his next contract has a chance to be Loui Eriksson 2.0
Nahhh no chance of that. He plays with heart unlike Loui who may be one of the laziest pricks to ever play in the league. He was a terrible signing right from his first game. Landy would give a team at least three good years.
It could turn out to be a millstone contract but not nearly as bad as the six year death march of watching Eriksson play.
It could turn out to be much more than the Eriksson millstone. Think around $8M as a starting point for Landeskog, and that's if you give him the full 7 years. We could end up hating him for the final 4 years of his tenure here.
Not that I think for even a second that this is happening. We absolutely do not have the cap space for him unless Eriksson, Roussel, and Holtby are gone with no cap return and Beagle is on LTIR. Oh, and Virtanen is gone too.
Then it's doable.
$7M for Petey and Hughes.
$9M x 6 for Landeskog.
Leaves $12M in cap space.
Still need a backup goaltender, 3 defensemen (at least one of them a top-4), and another top-9 forward.
So yeah, maybe can do. But this also requires Miller staying at center and hoping that Graovac can take over the 4th line pivot duties.
Potentially leaves us up shit creek halfway through the Landeskog deal when Petey and Hughes bridge deals need re-upping.