Tyler Seguin, douggie Hamilton and some loser play for Pittsburgh now?
- HealthyScratch6

if some loser = jared knight, i think the asset flow works.

vancouver would be dumb to give up a top 5 pick next years draft for him... they are destined to suck once again.

pertty close. i think those changes get us there.

but yeah, what a difference if the rebuild included seguin and hamilton vs. kapanen and rychel.
- Tumbleweed

Oh well...the future looks bright, you've got some great young kids now and that's what matters.

Tampa would match at 6 or 6.5 or more. The teams would have to offer him 8.

Fowler and 2nd & 3rd - boy would he look good in Ducks orange -
- dozerD10

The Ducks don't do Russians.

The Blues have a few good bargaining chips though. And prior to resigning Steen today , probably could've handled it.
- RobShouts

Steen's cap hit actually drops with the new contract, so it has little effect on Army's ability to fit Kucherov at $6- $7 mil. Moving salary is more pertainint.

Shattenkirk ($4.25mil)
Sobotka's contract ($2.725 mil)
Rattie ($700k)
Bennington ($650k)

For

Kucherov ($6.25 mil w/ Blues)
Sustr ($1.45 mil)

Tampa would need to move salary elsewhere, but the addition of Bennington would allow then to ship out Bishop, move Vasilevskiy to starter, & Gudlevskis to either his back up or have him splitting time with Bennington in Syracuse.

Tampa would match at 6 or 6.5 or more. The teams would have to offer him 8.
- Bleu Blanc Rouge

They can't really match 6.5 and would have to dump salary elsewhere in order to make it work.

Francis could offer sheet Kucherov for a little more than he's worth at $7 million and squeeze Yzerman for a trade instead.

If he gets Kucherov, great, the Canes can afford to give up the draft picks. If they match, well, either the Canes push to get another player from Tampa or they've caused a serious headache and done some damage to one of the better teams in their conference.

Steen's cap hit actually drops with the new contract, so it has little effect on Army's ability to fit Kucherov at $6- $7 mil. Moving salary is more pertainint.

Shattenkirk ($4.25mil)
Sobotka's contract ($2.725 mil)
Rattie ($700k)
Bennington ($650k)

For

Kucherov ($6.25 mil w/ Blues)
Sustr ($1.45 mil)

Tampa would need to move salary elsewhere, but the addition of Bennington would allow then to ship out Bishop, move Vasilevskiy to starter, & Gudlevskis to either his back up or have him splitting time with Bennington in Syracuse.



- usmcaaron

I don't see Berglund and his 3.7 coming back but we will also need to extend Parayko next year

Steen's cap hit actually drops with the new contract, so it has little effect on Army's ability to fit Kucherov at $6- $7 mil. Moving salary is more pertainint.

Shattenkirk ($4.25mil)
Sobotka's contract ($2.725 mil)
Rattie ($700k)
Bennington ($650k)

For

Kucherov ($6.25 mil w/ Blues)
Sustr ($1.45 mil)

Tampa would need to move salary elsewhere, but the addition of Bennington would allow then to ship out Bishop, move Vasilevskiy to starter, & Gudlevskis to either his back up or have him splitting time with Bennington in Syracuse.



- usmcaaron

The motive behind my comment was that salary would be traded away for Kucherov and Steen would not be resigned next season. That said, I'm on board with your trade proposal. Draw up a contract, I'll run it over to Tampa in the morning.

Kucherov still has to sign the offer sheet. If it's one that they can easily match, but is lower than Kuch wants, he just won't sign it. There is no loophole here.
- SolidGoldBricks

Exactly, if Kuch signs an offer sheet, it clearly means he don't care what team he plays for. Its just like Free Agency except the signing team will need to give at least 2 firsts in return...

Tampa would match at 6 or 6.5 or more. The teams would have to offer him 8.
- Bleu Blanc Rouge

DING DING DING

Anyone thinking that TB doesn't match under $8M is out to lunch.

Facking insomnia. Have an Ultimate tourney tomorrow, can't (frank)ing sleep.