Oh, and another suggestion: Shane Doan. If Phoenix moves, he's made it publically clear he does not want to go to Winnipeg. I would love him on a line with Gaborik and Richards, and he's on a really solid contract. It actually is a perfect fit.
Doan is one of the guys i thought of too...him, Iginla if you can pry him out, and id just about give up the farm for Rick Nash. Id seriously make everyone available to get him here.
I'd give up Kreider in a package for either Doan or Nash...Iginla kinda scares me, though, with his age and style of play. I think he could really start declining soon, although he had a very good year.
And I think Nash could work, although I highly question his intensity. If you don't like Gaborik in big games, Nash does the same, at times.
This is courtesy of Vitto from the other thread. Assuming a Drury buyout:
CAPGEEK.COM CAP CALCULATOR
FORWARDS
Brandon Dubinsky ($3.500m) / Brad Richards ($6.500m) / Marian Gaborik ($7.500m)
Wojtek Wolski ($3.800m) / Artem Anisimov ($2.000m) / Ryan Callahan ($3.500m)
Sean Avery ($1.937m) / Derek Stepan ($0.875m) / Mats Zuccarello-Aasen ($1.750m)
Carl Hagelin ($0.662m) / Brian Boyle ($1.500m) / Brandon Prust ($0.800m)
/ Chris Drury ($3.333m)
DEFENSEMEN
Marc Staal ($3.975m) / Daniel Girardi ($3.325m)
Ryan McDonagh ($1.300m) / Mike Sauer ($1.700m)
Michael Del Zotto ($1.087m) / Pavel Valentenko ($0.800m)
/ Matt Gilroy ($0.900m)
GOALTENDERS
Henrik Lundqvist ($6.875m) / Martin Biron ($0.875m)
CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled without the bonus cushion)
SALARY CAP: $59,400,000; CAP PAYROLL: $58,495,500; BONUSES: $1,487,500
CAP SPACE (22-man roster): $904,500
Removing Avery and Wolski frees up ~5M alone. Replace Avery with another rookie at ~800k and we have a little over 4M in space to acquire another winger. Frankly, it might not even be worth it because how much of an upgrade would it be over Wolski at 3.8M? We need to find a top end talent winger for more than 5M+ to make it worth it. Go big or go home.
An Oilers fan proposed Hemsky for Anisimov + pick.
Doan has said if the 'Yotes leave Phoenix he does not want to be a part of the franchise. He's got a list of teams he'd report to, there's I believe 14-15 of them. If the Rangers are one of them, Sather will make an offer before the draft. However, trading for Doan does take Richards out of the plans essentially.
FORWARDS
Brandon Dubinsky ($3.500m) / Brad Richards ($6.500m) / Marian Gaborik ($7.500m)
Ruslan Fedotenko ($1.000m) / Artem Anisimov ($1.800m) / Ryan Callahan ($3.500m)
Sean Avery ($1.937m) / Derek Stepan ($0.875m) / Mats Zuccarello-Aasen ($1.750m)
/ Chris Drury ($7.050m) / Brandon Prust ($0.800m)
DEFENSEMEN
Marc Staal ($3.975m) / Daniel Girardi ($3.325m)
Ryan McDonagh ($1.300m) / Mike Sauer ($1.250m)
Michael Del Zotto ($1.087m) / Pavel Valentenko ($0.850m)
GOALTENDERS
Henrik Lundqvist ($6.875m) / Martin Biron ($0.875m)
CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled without the bonus cushion)
SALARY CAP: $62,400,000; CAP PAYROLL: $55,750,000; BONUSES: $1,487,500
CAP SPACE (19-man roster): $6,649,999
For this to happen, Boogaard needs to be buried/retired, Christensen needs to be buried, and Wolski needs to be traded/bought out. Buyout for Wolski included, we have 6m to add another top line player, this is keeping Drury at full contract for next year aswell.
This also puts us with an even younger blueline than we had this season though. The cap also needs to go up to 62.4m for this to work, I think that's what it is reported as going up to correct?
Edit** I forgot Boyle... So Boyle @ 1.5 could even replace Avery, or Drury in the even that he's dealt with.
Doan has said if the 'Yotes leave Phoenix he does not want to be a part of the franchise. He's got a list of teams he'd report to, there's I believe 14-15 of them. If the Rangers are one of them, Sather will make an offer before the draft. However, trading for Doan does take Richards out of the plans essentially.
Not necessarily. I have no clue how the cap would work but Sather is very shrewd at these things. Most of the time when Sather makes a trade, it's for a player nobody saw coming. It wouldn't surprise me if we traded for a player no one knew was available and still somehow managed to sign Richards.
I'd give up Kreider in a package for either Doan or Nash...Iginla kinda scares me, though, with his age and style of play. I think he could really start declining soon, although he had a very good year.
And I think Nash could work, although I highly question his intensity. If you don't like Gaborik in big games, Nash does the same, at times.
You'd give up Kreider for what may be 1 year of Doan? Nash no doubt, but certainly not for Doan.
I'd give up Kreider in a package for either Doan or Nash...Iginla kinda scares me, though, with his age and style of play. I think he could really start declining soon, although he had a very good year.
And I think Nash could work, although I highly question his intensity. If you don't like Gaborik in big games, Nash does the same, at times.
Iginla is younger than Doan. The only guy I trade Kreider for is Nash.
We need a capologist to run the numbers. I know we can fit Richards in but what other contracts would have to be moved out to acquire (trade) another 5M+ top line player? We're honestly running out of albatross contracts, aside from Drury obviously.
That would be very very hard to do. Fitting in Richards is hard enough.
We basically would have to hope something is done with Redden, Drury, Wolski, Avery, and Boogaard. Prospal and Fedotenko wouldn't be able to fit either.
