You can be sure Holland will waive prospects over any of his overpaid, useless veterans to get out of his salary cap mess. He will always favor the vets over the youngsters... it's the Holland way and he thinks it will help him make the playoffs in his new Arena (which won't happen). So we'll probably lose at least one more prospect due to waivers. He's not going to put any of his recent veteran acquisitions on waivers. We've all seen this before.
This team is a complete trainwreck due to Holland's mismanagement. Highest payroll in the league and I just heard this team leads the NHL with 10 players with NTC (no trade clauses) in their contracts ! Good grief.
- Vladdie_Kon1
I was just spitballing with the numbers the other day, and I don't think it'd actually be
that hard to get the team under the cap (minus Franzen), as long as AA comes in under $2.5 million. To do it, the team would have to clear either one or two roster spots and about $3 million in salary, give our take maybe $500k depending on what AA signs for and whether they go with 22 or 23 players on the roster.
If I'm the GM? Trading Sheahan exclusively for futures (whatever you can get) and demoting Ericsson would save $3.1 million. That's not especially good asset management in Sheahan's case, but when you're in this kind of cap crunch you usually have to take the best of bad options. Even with his poor season last year, I think there'd still be teams out there willing to take a 1-year flier on his since the cost would be low and there's basically no risk (he's even still an RFA after the season).
After that you sign AA (probably around $2 million on a bridge deal) and promote any two (or if you have the money, three) of Svechnikov, Street, Tangradi, Lorito, Bertuzzi, Frk. Bam, you're back within one Johan Franzen of the cap ceiling and don't have to play LTIR roulette all season long, hoping you don't go bust at the worst possible time. Team would still suck, but there's nothing much you can do about that anyway.
