Using a rare piece of mid-August hockey news in Leon Draisaitl’s re-signing yesterday, the Thursday Coffee Shop polls and discussion questions will use that as a jumping off point for today’s coffee chatter.
The Daily Cup of Joe for today is a companion article with a couple Hurricanes’ angles on the Oilers’ deal. David Miller’s article projecting the Hurricanes’ financial situation out a few years is also great companion reading for today’s financial discussion.
So get your calculators and Wall Street math models ready, and let’s go…
Carolina Hurricanes polls
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Discussion questions
1) Which of the contract situations in the polls, do you think has the greatest chance to escalate based on results from the 2017-18 season?
2) Do you think it is possible that any of these players or others including Teuvo Teravainen could price themselves out of the long-term future in favor of less expensive young players on the way if their next contract escalates significantly?
3) How do you see the team managing the impending salary escalation? Will the Hurricanes spend much closer to the cap and be able to keep everyone? Will a clear line between core and non-core players need to be used to pare salary over the next few years? Or…?
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1. Hanifin or Lindholm. If both play 17-18 like they did at the later stages of last season, then both could get healthy raises.
2. Lindholm, Hanifin, and TT will all be given that evaluation. If Hanifin shows top line potential this year, he could price himself out. We can’t afford 4, 5 million dollar defenders. Because it was only 1 strong year of play Hanifin wouldn’t get Slavin money. TT and Lindholm are in the same boat. If both play really strong and so do the big prospects in Charlotte, someone won’t be kept. Eventually GMRF is going to run out of cap space, our’s or the NHL’s ceiling. We will have to trade good performing guys away in order to keep the group we can afford. GMRF will have to do it smarter than the Capitals, Oilers, or Blackhawks’ GMs have of late. The return those GMs have gotten for some of their talent is worrisome.
3. GMRF won’t be able to buy a bunch of FA years from everyone. 2-3 year bridge deals have to happen in order to keep cost down. Inside the bridge deal you evaluate the prospect pool and the players long term possibility with the team. You trade who you have or can afford to trade. GMRF really has his work cut out for him over the next 5 years.
1. Aho
2. TT, Lindy
3. Actually, I think the capspace will have to shrink to a minimum,
in order to be competitive! In addition, due to the wealth of forward prospect talent, I see more future trading of (expendable) high-salary forwards to replenish the prospect group, and fill needs (like backup goalie).
1/ Lindholm. I think everyone sees the horse he can be if he puts it together for a full season: point-producer, class-A distributor, and rugged. We have another year with Aho and we can massage a nice bridge deal with Hanifin if he rises up this year: it’d only be one year of above-expectations performance.
2/ A player that consistently (over) performs to earn a premium contract is exactly the player I want on my team. I’d prefer to trade some moderately paid players instead (ie., Rask): they are by definition easier to replace. We have plenty of cap space for high-performing players; it’s the players on the bubble that need to worry about being replaced by players on ELC’s.
3/ It alls depends on ownership’s willingness to spend into a team on the rise (and presumably winning with playoff runs). It that answer is yes, then I think we have room to keep almost all of our core players. We’ll have a deep bench to backfill non-performers and expiring UFA’s with rising prospects, but we should have the capacity under the Cap to keep the core of the team together through the ’20-’21 season.
The Ohile he has talked with Hanifin’s agent but that they are not currently talking. I think the Hanifin camp is smartly saying let’s wait to see the next year and are hoping that Hanifin performs to the level to demand a contract on the level of Slavin and Pesce. He will only sign a lesser (bridge?) deal if his year isn’t as solid as he wants it to be.
I wouldn’t trade out any outperforming players currently on the roster for players in the pipeline – we have money to spend. But I would look at extending Aho long-term at large dollars (+$7M) if he takes it up a notch, then commit $5M+ to Lindholm. So, in that sense, a few players could price themselves out.
I really think Teuvo has the most to prove this season, even though he is only on a bridge contract.
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