Jeremy Laura: Time for some fun! Contest alert

Cat 3, do you mean opening day roster or are you going to track this all season?

Cat 3, do you mean opening day roster or are you going to track this all season?
- HenryHockey

Opening day. I will give some leniency if someone is supposed to be on the roster but got hurt in pre season

CAT 1: T Tatar V Namestnikov T Stecher


CAT 2: Adin Hill Trevor van Riemsdyk Connor Clifton JT Compher Evan Rodriguez


CAT 3: S Edvinsson A Johansson C Hanas C Mazur C Bedard

1: McIlrath, Tatar, Stecher
2: Severson, Compher, JVR, TVR, Raanta
3: Bedard, Soderblom, Edvinsson, Mazur, Hanas

Jeremy- Is Soderblom eligible?

1: McIlrath, Tatar, Stecher
2: Severson, Compher, JVR, TVR, Raanta
3: Bedard, Soderblom, Edvinsson, Mazur, Hanas
- Feds91Stammer

Bedard??? Over Gary's dead body!!

Jeremy- Is Soderblom eligible?
- todd3066

He only played 21 games, I’ll allow it

1: McIlrath, Tatar, Stecher
2: Severson, Compher, JVR, TVR, Raanta
3: Bedard, Soderblom, Edvinsson, Mazur, Hanas
- Feds91Stammer

Thanks for laying all that out. My friend would be happy as anything to see Tatar back! Marking it down. I think there’s some solid picks here

Category 1 - baby come back:
Tatar, AA, Janmark

Category 2 - Free Agent (non former wing)
JVR, ROR, PLD, Severson, Jarry

Category 3 - Rookie promotion
Edvinsson, Johansson, Kaspar, Mazur, Solderblom

1) Nosek, Stecher, Pysyk

2)Drouin, Severson, Varmamov, Rodreges, Sousy

3)Soderblom, Edvinsson, Hanas, Mazur, Johansson

1. Jensen, Bertuzzi, Glendening

2. Ryan O'Reilly, Max Domi, John Klingberg, Radko Gudas, Milan Lucic.

3. Edvinsson, Johansson, Soderblom, Kasper, Hanas.

He only played 21 games, I’ll allow it
- Jeremy Laura

That being the case, I'd like to include Soderblom rather than Bedard, if it's OK with you.

That being the case, I'd like to include Soderblom rather than Bedard, if it's OK with you.
- todd3066

Absolutely. A lot of you like him for next year. I have to give him a lot of credit he’s worked really hard.

Absolutely. A lot of you like him for next year. I have to give him a lot of credit he’s worked really hard.
- Jeremy Laura

Ok, a bit of weirdness in the world of finance. A “balloon” article (or a few) was floating the idea of a bidding war for the Sens, pushing the price to possibly 1 billion. If you read into any of them, current pricing seems closer to 800m (Pens sold for 900M). A couple more “rumor” entries of 2 possible new franchises. As best we can tell the next franchise cost will be around 1 billion and if last time was any indication, it still isn’t HRR (meaning it doesn’t get included in final HRR for the year). I found an entry that showed Bettman getting a 1 billion dollar loan, which gave each team access to 30m. For a cap team, that’s just over 1/3 of salary. Now 3 separate transactions are being pushed to try and hit that. If all 32 teams are included and 3 billion is distributed evenly, that’s 93,750,000. Assuming the cap actually goes up 1 million (which is what they keep bouncing back to after saying maybe more) each team would take in 10 million over cap. Keep in mind that cap figures don’t include hotels, per diems and charter costs (or insurance). The hard escrow of 6% for 3 years is supposed to kick in after this season based on the original MOU. With Bally potentially leaving (Sinclair) and viewership down, 3 billion could be a short term fix for what teams are running below from down years. We’re just now getting 2021 numbers that showed every team at a loss (from 16m all the way to 54m). Keep ears open for those numbers