2025-26 Canes Miscellaneous Thread

[cmaleski2]

Carlson will have to come off his supposed $10 million AAV ask if he really wants to play for us. If he does sign with us, this fits like this:

Slavin-Carlson
Miller-Walker
Ghost-Chatfield

And goodbye Nikishin.

Now if you are trying to fit Carlson and Hellebuyck onto the roster....let's say Carlson settles for $9 million...Hellebuyck's cap hit is $8.5 million.

You remove Kochetkov from the roster as part of the Hellebuyck trade and you buy out KK, our cap space is:

17,340,706

As in $160k short. If you can convince Carlson to take $8.8 million AAV then we could squeeze both him and Hellebuyck under the cap and be pennies from the cap ceiling. While Seth Jarvis is out early in the season, LTIR will allow the Canes to bring Nadeau up (if he is still with the organization). Another possibility is that we trade Ghost somewhere, given that if we did sign Carlson, we are not going to be not playing him on PP1.

The thing is, if the Canes front office thinks Carlson is still good enough to play in our top 4, then I have no reason not to believe them. And if we cannot get him to come off his ridiculous $10 million per AAV ask, then no harm done, we lost a low 6th round pick that we probably would have wasted on a Russian.

 

[TheBigKahuna]

When Ghost and Carlsson go away or get too old (soon), they're going to wish they had a guy like Nikishin.

 

[bagopux]

Sign Carlson and trade him for Werenski kr Helleybuck.

Or maybe Carlson is our Ray Borque.

 

[Christer]

Really? 10 million for a 36 year old. Insane.

 

[Fayettenamcanesfan]

Well he may be getting older but he was more productive than anyone on our d corp last season as an old man. I trust Tulsky and Brindy…. They pinpoint players they think will fit in the system and they haven’t really missed yet minus 1 or 2 guys the last 5+ years. If they think he’s worth it, then more than likely he is. They don’t usually go after guys for the sake of making a move. Or maybe they get him as part of a sign and trade package. Either way, this org has given me zero reasons not to trust their moves

 

[jeffbear]

Well he may be getting older but he was more productive than anyone on our d corp last season as an old man.

This is important to keep in mind. And also keep in mind that even as a slower, older guy Carlson was still winning his shifts in both Washington and Anaheim … playing two different systems. He was well over 50% of expected goal share both of the last two seasons. And he played in the Top 4 in a zone system in DC and a hybrid system in Anaheim without really missing a beat. It’s easy to dismiss him as a bad fit, but we’ve done that with a lot of guys before and been wrong.