The good news is he’s only on the books for 3 years and the new theme w the Sens is they are big!! In the draft and between Gudbranson and Watson here they are big!!
Maybe Duclair just wanted out. Who could blame him?
Likely, but now you've just shown the other RFAs the way to get out of dodge. Has Dorion actually taken anyone to arbitration yet? Hoffman was on Murray's watch no?
But as much as I want to demonize the shady ways the team is being run, in doing the math they will meet the cap floor this year with minimal extensions to:
Tierney (4.5M AAV) - 1/2 years
C. Brown (4.1M/AAV) - 5 years
Murray (6M/AAV) - 3 years
and the rest of the RFAs between 0.875M-1M.
Comes out to 63M on the cap (52M salary)
That's with 12.45M in dead cap (6M actual salary) in Gaborik, Nilsson, the ghost of Bobby Ryan, and the ghost of Dion Phaneuf.
That's a thin line of cap in/cap out for when they try and trade away the extra bodies at the trade deadline this year.
One down (6.25M/AAV) - 4 Years
A smart thing to do would be to claim Tyler Johnson off waivers if Detroit doesn't.
$3.75 salary/$5M cap hit. Give him a chance to rebound with a bigger role and then let Seattle take him in the expansion draft (Kraken local boy). If not, he's trade-able next year with a 20 team list instead of the full NTC he has now.
-- Edited by Agent Orange on Friday 9th of October 2020 02:34:02 PM
Murray signs a huge contract, truthfully he's been less than average for 3 full years now since he helped the Pens win 2 back to back Cups. He was surrounded by a team that you have to believe is a tad bit better than these Senators. What gives anyone the idea to pay him that much and he's just going to recapture what he had in the 16 and 17 playoff runs? The guys on Pitts radio all were completely done w him and thought Rutherford pulled off a heist. It's been 3 full years since he was a the top of his game why the rush to reward him?
Maybe Duclair just wanted out. Who could blame him?
Likely, but now you've just shown the other RFAs the way to get out of dodge. Has Dorion actually taken anyone to arbitration yet? Hoffman was on Murray's watch no?
But as much as I want to demonize the shady ways the team is being run, in doing the math they will meet the cap floor this year with minimal extensions to:
Tierney (4.5M AAV) - 1/2 years
C. Brown (4.1M/AAV) - 5 years
Murray (6M/AAV) - 3 years
and the rest of the RFAs between 0.875M-1M.
Comes out to 63M on the cap (52M salary)
That's with 12.45M in dead cap (6M actual salary) in Gaborik, Nilsson, the ghost of Bobby Ryan, and the ghost of Dion Phaneuf.
That's a thin line of cap in/cap out for when they try and trade away the extra bodies at the trade deadline this year.
One down (6.25M/AAV) - 4 Years
A smart thing to do would be to claim Tyler Johnson off waivers if Detroit doesn't.
$3.75 salary/$5M cap hit. Give him a chance to rebound with a bigger role and then let Seattle take him in the expansion draft (Kraken local boy). If not, he's trade-able next year with a 20 team list instead of the full NTC he has now.
-- Edited by Agent Orange on Friday 9th of October 2020 02:34:02 PM
With Gudbranson in the fold that jumps them closer to the floor at $4M cap for $3M salary.
They may not need Gaborik now to reach the floor. One year LTIR contracts might have value now around the league. Crazy trade idea: Gaborik ($4.875M Cap / $600k salary) for Stepan ($6.5M cap / $2M Salary)
Helps Arizona with their cap and salary crunch and Ottawa has a player to replace Tierney at a lower cost and is not spending $600k on Gaborik to not play.
-- Edited by Agent Orange on Friday 9th of October 2020 12:04:59 PM
Eric Gudbranson come on down. Local Boy, Buy Tickets!
About the only FYOUS I’m seeing are the ones that Dorion is giving to Jaros.
Other than being overpaid and slow and can’t play Defense anymore that’s a great pickup. Mezsaros and Ceci will look like Bobby Orr compared to Gudbranson and I’m going to be Kraken fan and give this management and ownership group the boot if this works out like it looks like it will.
You watch the sports news and they talk about all the other teams and what they are doing to try and get better. Then there's the Sens who are dumping all their fan favourites and trying to sign dead players and invalids to get to the cap floor. The Sens love to talk about all the draft picks they have and how good they will be in a few years. But as one guy on Sportsnet said " all the Sens have are a hand full of magic beans and dreams". As the Oiler fans can attest to, high draft picks don't guarantee success.
Silly me, I was actually optimistic that they are clearing space and going to weaponize that cap space and try and really get better. Taking advantage of the teams that are at the cap etc. I was actually optimistic till I read you're guys posts here and I was rightfully brought back to Melnyk reality. I don't know what got into me being optimistic!?! Melnyk is a true downer, Pan is very optimistic that Dorian and Melnyk can't screw up this draft but I keep thinking Melnyk is there lurking, with the prospect of doing something stupid at all times.
You watch the sports news and they talk about all the other teams and what they are doing to try and get better. Then there's the Sens who are dumping all their fan favourites and trying to sign dead players and invalids to get to the cap floor. The Sens love to talk about all the draft picks they have and how good they will be in a few years. But as one guy on Sportsnet said " all the Sens have are a hand full of magic beans and dreams". As the Oiler fans can attest to, high draft picks don't guarantee success.
Silly me, I was actually optimistic that they are clearing space and going to weaponize that cap space and try and really get better. Taking advantage of the teams that are at the cap etc. I was actually optimistic till I read you're guys posts here and I was rightfully brought back to Melnyk reality. I don't know what got into me being optimistic!?! Melnyk is a true downer, Pan is very optimistic that Dorian and Melnyk can't screw up this draft but I keep thinking Melnyk is there lurking, with the prospect of doing something stupid at all times.
