Chicago is holding steady at $1.34MM over the cap with three players left to sign. If they simply promote their prospects under contract to fill the spots (which is the cheapest option), that adds another $2.1MM, which makes the magic number $3.45MM (over the cap). Candidates for salary dump: Brian Campbell – cap his of…
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From Forum answers VII – Inside the Kings: Linking to my own comment so I can remember where I made it when I turn out to be totally wrong; feel free to ignore
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[the question put to the peanut gallery is: if the cap is supposed to come down hard next year, won't the league do something to stop all these teams from having to dump salary to get under the cap, like maybe decide to keep the cap up anyway, or create some new loophole whereby teams…
Utterly Irrational Trade Thought Involving Other People’s Stars
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I was just looking at San Jose’s numbers. They have a cap hit of $55.4 with seven players left to sign, to get to 23. That’s simply not doable, even if they populate the rest of their team entirely with entry level prospects. With the players they have, it’s reasonable to assume signing the remaining…
Breaking Down the Marian Hossa Signing – Second City Hockey
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The Bad: Well – the cap situation is even more of a mess. That shit ain’t good. I thought they’d only be offering a one-year deal to anyone since next year is going to be Salary Cap Doomsday with Toews, Kane and Keith all due hefty raises. With 5.2 due to Hossa now it’s going…
HockeyBuzz.com – Matthew Barry – KINGS FANS NEED TO CALM THE HELL DOWN
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Several teams have left themselves ripe for raiding: How does Chicago pay for Kane and Towes and Keith who are RFA’s next year, not to mention Versteeg and Seabrook? Who does Calgary dump? 40 million for just 8 players? The Rangers have 40 million committed to just 15 players, I’m still trying to figure out…
New Post, in which, instead of earning money, I decide to crunch cap figures related to the preposterous Sedin twins to L.A. UFA rumor
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Here’s why I don’t think the swedish twins in socal rumor makes any sense, especially not Deano sense. Math. The twins want $12MM/year. The Kings, after re-signing Johnson and Purcell, then adding $12MM for the Sedins, would be at at least $58MM. $59MM if Hickey makes the team. So we have to dump one big salary.…
From Matthew Barry: Say What? Phaneuf to the Kings???
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I was talking about the draft to a person with huge ties to the Kings and we started talking about the up-coming free agency period. He/She said “What would you think about the Phaneuf kid playing for the Kings?” Of course I replied, “What do you know?” A chuckle ensued followed by “Can’t tell you…
The Puck Stops Here : “There are a few things we can say about the draft which are probably true”
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Yep. On average three players selected in the draft will go on to have Hall of Fame careers. It is hard to identify them at this point. It is a reasonable guess that John Tavares may be one of them, but that is far a certainty. Probably at least one of them is not yet…
From (the great) Matthew Barry: I Loved All The Things That DIDN’T Happen!
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1) Tavares – So Dreger and the Union Leader and almost everyone else on XM204 was saying Duchene was going first – THAT didn’t happen and it didn’t seem like there was ever any doubt it was Tavares. Dreger – so plugged in, and yet… 2) Brian Burke’s failure to move up – yes, he…
Just Saying: Philly is at $56MM and change with six players left to sign
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They’ll need at minimum $5MM to do it, and they’ve got about $1.5MM in cap space. Let’s just pretend that they spend a reasonable $8MM on those six players. They’ve got to shed more than $6.5MM in salary by October. I guess maybe they can give Briere away; that would about cover it. Unfortunately, nobody…