1, I don't believe Noeson will be paid more as a primary 4th line player
2. I'm looking at Necas losing his arbitration case.
3. Guentzel may be 9. but with 4.3 Million that would still be doable.
4. Martinook is too valuable to Rod and I think 2 million for what he brings is on target.
5. Jarvis is the wild card do we sign him long term or bridge him until we get a little more needed cap space in say 2 or 3 years?
6. Chatfield. I don't think the Canes will pay more than 3 million a year for Chats therefore I figured he would get a better offer.
What I wouldn't mind seeing and I know a lot of you will hate this, but Trading Orlovo for another D man in the 4 to 5 milion range would free up money to keep Chatfield and maybe give Jarvis the long term he wants.
Well allow me to retort. (just kidding mikey, nothing personal here lol just my opinions)
1. 36 and 37 points the last 2 years, he's a journeyman vet who has never gotten much $ on his contracts. He's surely going to want to maximize what he can earn while he's UFA with his value at an all time high. I'm sorry but his production is GREAT for a 3rd liner, let alone 4th line. We happen to be deep so he's been on the 4th line, but he has played up in the lineup and not been out of place, and he's been effective on one of the top PPs in the league. He's almost certainly gone and 100% not accepting 1.5
2. I suppose that is possible but I'd be SHOCKED if we allow things to get to that point. Piss him off and let him walk for nothing after playing on a 1 year deal? We either bridge him again, sign him long term or trade him is my thoughts.
4. He is valuable and Rod will want to keep him but the FO will play bad guy here. Martinook probably isn't in it for the $ and will want to stay. I just don't see why we'd give him a raise when we're going to be really really tight under the cap trying to keep a bunch of different guys. Could easily replace his production with an ELC. His leadership is why we'd keep him for 1.5-1.8 range.
6. lol I was mostly just giving you some grief for leaving him off your list while you add other players listed without contracts who I figured you'd let walk. We'll see on Chatty, I hope we can keep him but he definitely could price himself out of here.
I'm not against trading Orlov in theory but I just don't think it really helps us much. The difficulty in our decisions on most of the players we want to keep is not based on the cap situation next year but in future years. Orlov's cap hit next year just isn't really a big deal and he has proven his value as of late. If we let Skjei walk we will definitely need him here. I actually think there's a great chance we wind up keeping Orlov longer term, at a lower cap hit.