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2022-2023 NHL Misc. Thread

andyt said:
Devils re-sign Meier, 8 years, $8.8 million AAV
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At what point does New Jersey start worrying about too many high dollar, extra long contracts? That Meier money should take them out of any high end goalie add like Hellebuyck or Gibson that they were rumored to be kicking the tires on.
 
CanadaCanes said:
At what point does New Jersey start worrying about too many high dollar, extra long contracts? That Meier money should take them out of any high end goalie add like Hellebuyck or Gibson that they were rumored to be kicking the tires on.
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According to CapFriendly, the Devils have $10.2 million cap space but only have 9 forwards, 5 dmen and 2 goalies under contract.
 
andyt said:
According to CapFriendly, the Devils have $10.2 million cap space but only have 9 forwards, 5 dmen and 2 goalies under contract.
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Yeah, they are in an interesting situation. They're obviouisly committed to Hamilton, Meier, Hughes, Bratt, and Hischier, each of whom are on multi-year deals at $7.25 million cap hits or higher. Some of their lower-paid guys lie Palat and Haula has no movement or no trade clauses, giving them little flexibility to shed some mid-tier pay packages in an effort to fill out their roster and stay under the cap.
 
Toffoli at $4.8 million and Meier at $8.8 million eats up $13.6 million of space. Jesper Bratt was invisible in the playoffs, that's the high dollar contract extension that was a head scratcher for me.
 
Kevin Weekes says the Golden Knights are trading forward Reilly Smith to the Penguins for a 3rd round pick. It looks like Weekesy is the only guy that has it though. Smith has 2 years left at a $5 million AAV.
 
andyt said:
Devils re-sign Meier, 8 years, $8.8 million AAV
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Golf clap for getting it done for under $9 million AAV. Less impressed with the actual cash out chart, but hey ... you do what you have to do when you're sold on a quality player. That gives them Hughes centering Meier and Bratt, Hischier centering Palat and Tofoli (probably), and then a third line of Huala, Mercer and who ever else they scrape up on the cheap. The goaltending a D still need work, and the cap flexibility is gone for the next 4-5 years but at least they've got a solid core up front. You'd want a goaltender tho ... and an upgrade on the stay at home D guys.
 
andyt said:
Kevin Weekes says the Golden Knights are trading forward Reilly Smith to the Penguins for a 3rd round pick. It looks like Weekesy is the only guy that has it though. Smith has 2 years left at a $5 million AAV.
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They've already got it on CapFriendly, so ... probably solid intel. Smith isn't getting any younger but should be a good fit for Sullivan's systems.
 
With the cap space they saved on Reilly Smith, the Golden Knights re-signed Ivan Barbashev, 5 years/$25 million.
 
Watching the draft on YouTube... they were interviewing Dmitriy Simashev while the Coyotes were about to make their second pick of the first round at #12. They ask Simashev to predict who the Coyotes will pick, and he says it would be cool if they chose his buddy Danil But. They keep chatting, and the Yotes actually make But their selection. Simashev is thrilled, and says that this is going to make going to Arizona that much better.

It was pretty sweet to watch.
 
andyt said:
With the cap space they saved on Reilly Smith, the Golden Knights re-signed Ivan Barbashev, 5 years/$25 million.
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While I know the recency bias crowd won't want to hear this, I think 5 bills for that guy is pushing it. Barbashev is a playoff beast, but that intensity hasn't translated to the regular season all that much. He's no prospect ... dude has been around awhile and only has two really productive seasons under his belt. He just made himself a lot of money with an awesome playoffs.
 
I agree with you JB. I am relieved the Canes didn't get a chance to think about overpaying Barbashev.

The counter to that though is that the salary cap in the coming 3-4 years is about to go up by a very large amount. $5 million per season is going to be the new $4 million per season in the coming years.
 
Islanders send Josh Bailey and a 2026 2nd rounder to Chicago for the ever popular future considerations. Blackhawks are this year‘s salary dumping ground. Bailey has 1 year left at $5 million AAV, $3.5 million actual.
 
The Coyotes said yesterday that they’re discussing 6 sites in the East Valley for their new arena. Bettman said the league expects a plan by January 1 but Yotes president Xavier Gutierrez says the league hasn’t given them a hard deadline. Gutierrez also said they’d like to avoid a public referendum, understandable after they got their collective ass kicked in Tempe.

The East Valley is where they should have been all along, it’s where most of the fans and corporate partners are.

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Coyotes discussing 6 sites for arena in East Valley | NHL.com

Confident they'll have plan to present to NHL by Jan. 1 after voters didn't approve Tempe proposal
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It's good news for cap strapped teams to have another team so willing to take full salary dumps.

This most recent Josh Bailey trade, makes the 1st round pick (Seth Jarvis) the Canes extracted from the Leafs to take and buyout Marleau for them look like the steal that it was.
 
The Oilers get in on the dumping, sending Kailer Yamamoto and the rights to Klim Kostin to Detroit for future considerations. Yamamoto has 1 year left at $3.1 million, $3.2 million actual. Kostin is a RFA with arbitration rights, coming off a 1 year $750k contract.
 
cmaleski2 said:
It's good news for cap strapped teams to have another team so willing to take full salary dumps.

This most recent Josh Bailey trade, makes the 1st round pick (Seth Jarvis) the Canes extracted from the Leafs to take and buyout Marleau for them look like the steal that it was.
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Scott Powers, who covers the Blackhawks for The Athletic, says the Blackhawks will buy out Bailey.
 
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