MillionDollarCam

I highly doubt he’s ready and even if he is I wouldn’t put him out there until January. Coming off two ruptures, you need a full year at least.

He’s the gritty defensive defenseman everyone wanted. He’s exactly what this team needs. Defensively he’s better than Skjei and if we add Karlsson and TDA then you’ve replaced the offensive production that Brady brought. I know fans get attached to players but the Canes have a number on long term deals and they aren’t going to go over that number, even for guys like Pesce and Skjei.

Patches to Washington, gross.

Yep, it’s this 100%. Nikishin and Morrow will be ready in two years and the Canes don’t want to overpay Pesce and Skjei on long contracts when they can give up extra cash now on short term deals until Nikishin comes over and Morrow is ready.

Also the AAV is high but in two years that contract comes off the board and Nikishin comes over. 4D chess by Waddell.

Pesce is a righty and Orlov is a lefty. May mean Skjei is gone but Pesce could be joining him.

From what I’ve heard that deal is going through in two weeks once full year has passed since TDA was traded.

The Orlov signing is great but odd. He’s a lefty but he’s a top four defenseman. LeBrun is also saying that we still want Karlsson. Maybe the Canes plan to move both Skjei and Pesce for forwards and bring in Orlov and Karlsson. Slavin - Burns Orlov - Karlsson Chatfield - TDA

All your defensemen belong to us. Per LeBrun it’s a 2YR/$7.75M AAV deal and it does not take us out of the running for Karlsson who we still apparently have interest in.

For the cap space people, the Canes have around $14M in cap space with the following roster and around $11.5M with TDA factored in. Svechnikov - Aho - Jarvis Teravainen - Kotkaniemi - Necas Martinook - Staal - Fast Drury - Ponomarev - Noesen Rees Slavin - Burns Skjei - Pesce Chatfield - Coghlan Andersen Raanta Kochetkov So we need to find a LH 7th defenseman, figure out what’s going on with Pesce, extend Aho, and sign some forwards.

Could be the easiest solution. 12 skaters 6 defenseman 2 goalies Then carry one extra of each to get to 23 players.

Andersen and Raanta both back. Andersen - 2YRS - $3.4M AAV Raanta - 1YR - $1.5M

Duchene, Bertuzzi, Tarasenko, Killorn, and Pacioretty are still available. Need to add some of these guys. Killorn and Bertuzzi would give us some grit.

Goalie position is solved, let’s gets some forwards and figure out this Pesce/Karlsson situation.

We like our group lol

Wouldn’t be totally shocked if that happened because they are our current ECHL affiliate.

Canes will need to find a place for Kochetkov to play this year since we no longer have an AHL affiliate.

Waddell shaved $1M per year off of Freddie’s precious cap hit. Andersen and Raanta’s previous cap hit per year - $6.5M Andersen and Raanta’s current cap hit - $5M Good work GMDW.

GMDW solved the goalie issue early. Andersen is back 2YRS/$3.5MAAV

No Wheeler, he’s headed to NY.

So as of right now: Svechnikov - Aho - Jarvis Teravainen - Kotkaniemi - Necas Martinook - Staal - Fast Drury - Ponomarev - Noesen Rees Slavin - Burns Skjei - Pesce Chatfield - Coghlan Raanta Kochetkov Still need another goalie, the TDA deal to go through, potentially one or two more forwards, and probably a LH 7th defenseman. We also need to figure out the Pesce situation and extend Aho.

Don’t think that’s going to happen though I agree.

Canes shaved 500K off of Raanta’s previous cap hit. Have to think they are looking for another goalie in the $4.5M range whether it’s Freddie, Korpisalo, or Jarry.

The Finnish Father is back, 1YR/$1.5M. Welcome back Rants!

Erik Karlsson still being mentioned as a possibility for the Canes, starting to think the play is Karlsson and then shipping Pesce out for a forward. Slavin - Burns Skjei - Karlsson Chatfield - TDA