Team outlook heading into free agency (feel free to post your own)

Islanders GM · Senior Member

RE: Team outlook heading into free agency (feel free to post your own)

Islanders GM · Senior Member

For Unrestricted Free Agency:

Big players
(lots of room under cap)

Anaheim
San Jose
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Vancouver
Edmonton
Toronto
Buffalo
NYR
Washington
Florida

Partial players
(some cap room)

Columbus
St. Louis
Dallas
Detroit
Boston
Pittsburgh
NYI
Carolina

Small players
(near cap)

Atlanta
Tampa Bay
Montreal
Ottawa
Philly
New Jersey
Calgary
Colorado
Chicago
Minnesota
Nashville

It will be interesting out west. All three Californian teams and Phoenix could be big players and are natural rivals. And their other opponent, Dallas, has some cap room. Who'll get the advantage in this Pacific Division?

-- Edited by Islanders GM at 01:40, 2007-08-15

Eric_Isles · BRHL2 Co-Commish

EVEN STRENGTH

    CENTER                LEFT WING             RIGHT WING            DEFENCE               DEFENCE
 1  Chris Drury           Darcy Tucker          Glen Murray           Brian Rafalski        Dan Hamhuis
 2  Daymond Langkow       Kyle Calder           Chris Kunitz          Vitaly Vishnevski     Jason Smith
 3  Samuel Pahlsson       Derek Boogaard        Niklas Hagman         Andrew Alberts        Aaron Miller
 4  Michael Rupp          Ryan Johnson          Ruslan Fedotenko      Brian Rafalski        Dan Hamhuis


STARTING GOALIE

    Kari Lehtonen



I have a few targets in FA, but mainly looking to add depth.

NYRGM · Senior Member

KARIYA        XXXXXXXX    VERMETTE
BOCHENSKI   PAVELSKI     CHRISTENSEN
JOKINEN        LANG           UMBERGER
FRITSCHE     GAUSTAD      FRANZEN

KUBINA        XXXXXXXX
KUKKONEN    BABCHUCK
JONES           RANGER

XXXXXXX
HOLMQVIST

BENCH
C- ZIGOMANIS
C- BETTS
LW-CRAIG
LW-BOURQUE
D-SCHUBERT
D-PICARD
D-WIDEMAN
G-TELLQVIST   (Who can be sent to farm)

Rangers have 40 Million + to spend and around 15-20 Mil in cap space.
Rangers are looking for an upgrade at every position and it looks like we'll be able to get it.

-- Edited by NYRGM at 13:50, 2007-08-18

LAKings · Senior Member

I like how many people say they'll be able to get whoever they want.. that just leads to bad news.. plus, don't forget this little tidbit.

C. Signing Bonuses

i. All signing bones cannot exceed 50% of the total years value of the contract. For example a 3 year deal worth $1,000,000 per season would equal a signing bonus of a maximum of $1,500,000. Please adhere to this formula when sending in offers: (Contract Length x Dollar Amount) / 2 = Maximum Signing Bonus.

so if you offered someone a 1 million dollar contract a year for 3 years with the max 1.5 mil SB.. you'd be looking at a total offer of 1.5 mil per season

Islanders GM · Senior Member

NYRGM wrote:

Rangers have 40 Million + to spend and around 15-20 Mil in cap space.
Rangers are looking for an upgrade at every position and it looks like we'll be able to get it.

I thought it odd that you gave up three 2nd round picks and Chistov to add 13 million you CANNOT use in the UFA process. As the Kings g.m. just pointed out, bonus amounts are limited to half a contract's value, and there's no way you'll be using up your initial 27 mill joe, so adding 13 mill more was... useless.

That said, in terms of general team management, the money will assure that your team stays in the black even if it maxes salaries to the cap ceiling.

Islanders GM · Senior Member

Tucker - Drury - Murray
2nd LW - Langkow - Kunitz
Calder - Pahlsson - 3rd RW
Hagman - 4th C - Fedotenko

send to the farm, as call-ups: Johnson (69 ov) Boogard (67 ov), Rupp (67 ov)

Rafalski - Hamhuis
Vishnevski - Smith
Alberts - Miller

Lehtonen
backup goalie

send down to farm: Krahn (64 ov)

Eric_Calgary wrote:

I have a few targets in FA, but mainly looking to add depth.

Ideally you'll pick up a 2nd LW, 3rd RW and 4th C.

Good luck! With less than $5 million of cap room, the UFA process is probably not going to be your best bet.

Most teams want to be competitive now and it's hard to have a line-up without weaknesses when 29 other teams want to improve their competitiveness. Teams like Calgary's, that only need supporting players, might be best served to wait for some teams to be out of the playoff race by December/January, and then get the assets needed to solidy the decent core in its bid for a cup run.

Something to keep in mind.

-- Edited by Islanders GM at 04:05, 2007-08-17

Islanders GM · Senior Member

The Rangers have 27 players with 70+ OV !

Many teams should look to deal with Joe to fill their rosters with competitive players.

Ideally the Rangers needs to be competitive:

1 LW - 1 C - 1 RW
2 LW - Pavelski - Vermette
Bochenski - Lang - Umberger
Craig/Fritsche/Bourque - Stajan/Gaustad/Jokinen - Christiansen/Franzen

bench: Zigomanis (70 ov), Betts (70 ov)

send down to the farm: Rissmiller (69 ov), Hossa (69 ov), Laich (69 ov), Lapierre (68 ov)

Top pair D - Top pair D
Wideman/Babchuk - Modry/Ranger
Colaiacovo/Kukkonen - Picard/Jones

7th d/bench: Schubert (70 ov)

call-up/send down to the farm: Hutchinson (69 ov), Pock (69 ov)

starting goaltender
Holmqvist/Denis

send down to the farm: Tellqvist (70 ov)

---------------------------------------------------------------

The Rangers can solidify its prospect base and draft picks if it goes into selling mode of some 70+ OV players to all those teams in need of third and fourth line impact depth players.

There's no way the NYR is going to be able to meet all its needs to be ideally competitive through the UFA process. Presenting the Rangers are a mere $ 12 million under the cap and that won't get a first line, first defensive pairing and a starting goaltender.

Alternative: If any team is primed to sit on its assets and treat the first half of the season as a rebuilding period, it's the Rangers!

-- Edited by Islanders GM at 04:46, 2007-08-17

Panthers · Senior Member

Don't forget that the bonuses are half the TOTAL contract value...so if he adds $15M in cap space, for each of the next 4 years, that is $60M, so he could conceivably give out $30M in bonuses, leaving him with $10M to get through the season.

Sabres · Guru

Isles, you should edit that list of "Big players, Partial Players and Small Players" to say how much cap room each team has.

Hawks_G · Guru

Yes....we would be interested in some pieces...but with no cap room to speak of...we are pretty much limited to whatever scraps people leave over. :)

Islanders GM · Senior Member

Sabres wrote:

Isles, you should edit that list of "Big players, Partial Players and Small Players" to say how much cap room each team has.

go ahead. no one is stopping you.

Islanders GM · Senior Member

Hawks_G wrote:

Yes....we would be interested in some pieces...but with no cap room to speak of...we are pretty much limited to whatever scraps people leave over. :)

With 39.3 million in salary commitments your team will indeed be a small player on the UFA market. There simply is not enough cap room there to sign a first line player, top defensive player or decent goalie. With under 5 million in cap room, the Blackhawks can compete for a couple of third and fourth liners, which is good enough (!) as your team seems to only need wingers for Handzus on the back line. And since your fourth line pivot is so talented, especially in passing, some veteran finishers could provide scoring depth, perhaps with some speed or hitting.

The Hawks' best bets:

Third/Fourth liners:

8 Geoff Sanderson       LW L OK    60 76 67 64 77 75 77 65 73 57 63 89 91 72   34
10 Dallas Drake           LW L OK    71 70 74 62 70 78 70 58 56 77 59 84 93 71   37
38 Dean McAmmond         C/LW L OK    65 76 66 58 89 85 73 61 60 69 62 80 80 71 33
88 Eric Lindros           RW R OK    77 70 76 65 54 58 71 69 75 56 59 79 76 72   33
10 Peter Bondra           RW L OK    65 71 67 60 60 77 73 63 69 59 61 88 89 70 38

Fourth liners/extras/call-ups:

87 Donald Brashear        LW L OK    73 64 86 52 86 44 63 59 60 53 57 81 81 68  34
8 Brad May               LW L OK    81 60 75 56 53 72 62 60 56 59 56 82 83 67   35

-- Edited by Islanders GM at 17:28, 2007-08-17

Hawks_G · Guru

Islanders GM wrote:

Hawks_G wrote:

Yes....we would be interested in some pieces...but with no cap room to speak of...we are pretty much limited to whatever scraps people leave over. :)

With 39.3 million in salary commitments your team will indeed be a small player on the UFA market. There simply is not enough cap room there to sign a first line player, top defensive player or decent goalie. With under 5 million in cap room, the Blackhawks can compete for a couple of third and fourth liners, which is good enough (!) as your team seems to only need wingers for Handzus.

Handzus is moving to the wing....so as far as the Hawks depth chart goes....

Marleau-Thornton-Havlat
Handzus-Lecavalier-Sturm
Dumont-Legwand-Kotalik
Tambellini- ????-Miettinen

Markov-Volchenkov
Suter-Mara
Wallin-Sarich

Backstrom
???

As for salary committments, we expect to be around $42 million after everyone signs. So we have less than you think for cap space.....but we feel like contenders....most certainly.

Sabres · Guru

How the frick do you expect to sign Markov and Dumont for 3M combined George? Dumont is worth 3M (making 2.5M in real life, except that hes also coming off a career year and deserves a raise) and Markov is worth at least 5M as one of the top dmen in the game.