09 May 2026 13:58:08
Toronto —> Vancouver
1st overall pick
COL 2027 or 2028 1st rd pick
LA 2026 2nd rd pick
Morgan Reilly
Nick Robertson
Domi
Vancouver —> Toronto
Pick #3
MIN 2026 1st rd pick
Elias Pettersson @ 50% retained
Brock Boeser @ 50% retained
Filip Hronek @ 50% retained
Draft Veorhoff or Reid @3
Sign Tuch free agency (10.25$)
Sign Bobby mcmann or mason marchment free agency (5$)
Sign Ferraro free agency ($3.5M)
Knies($7.75M) Matthews($13.25M) Boeser $3.625M)
Mcmann($5M) Pettersson($5.8M) Nylander($11.5M)
Cowan ($873k) Tavares($4.38M) Tuch($10M)
Lorentz($1.35M) Groulx($812.5K) Joshua($3.25M)
Hronek($3.625M) Veorheoff/Reid($999K)
McCabe($4.51M) Tanev($4.5M)
OEL($3.5M) Carlo($4.1M)
Benoit($1.35M) Ferrarro($3.5M)
Woll ($3.66M)
Hildeby ($842K)
Stolarz ($3.75M)
Cap Hit: $101,926,500M
2027 salary cap projection ($114M)
1.) 09 May 2026
09 May 2026 13:05:21
Pettersson?
??
No thanks.
2.) 09 May 2026
09 May 2026 13:22:15
That’s a better team than we have that’s for sure and a lot of cap and crap gone.
3.) 09 May 2026
09 May 2026 13:37:51
Cap is 104
4.) 09 May 2026
09 May 2026 14:11:55
So ... I am sitting hypotheically in the GM's chair in Edmonton when this comes in on my e-mail as a proposal. I look at it and go "Yeah I did the math and I don't see any problem having $13,000,000 of retained salary cap for 6 years, how could that ever come back to haunt us? Oh and they want us to take Reilly's $7,500,000 too so $20,500,000 for one defensemen and 3 guys not playing for us and then when our first round picks do their First RFA contracts, I will find a way to get the league to allow us to only play with a 15 man roster instead of 23 and then we can make the cap work.
Yeah, yeah the finacial numbers work. Oh wait..... I just remembered I failed remedial math 4 times. Hm I better get someone else to look at these numbers" lol.
5.) 09 May 2026
09 May 2026 14:40:20
Those are some valid points Sufferingsince1967 - you could move Reilly to the Sharks for a third and retain the pick from LA while letting Vancouver keep Minny’s first making the trade as follows
TOR —> VAN
1st overall
COL 2027 1st
Robertson
VAN —> TOR
3rd overall
Pettersson @ 50% retained
Boeser @ 50% retained
Hronek @ 50% retained
This gives VAN pick #1 and a widely considered generational talent in McKenna, an extra 2nd this year, an extra 1st next year, an a proven 15 goal scorer with limited ice time who will be cheap and is very young.
Thoughts?
6.) 09 May 2026
09 May 2026 14:44:37
Vancouver's office, not Edmonton lol.
7.) 09 May 2026
09 May 2026 14:51:03
That salary retainment though is like a hangman's noose. All you have to do is look at Buffalo's retainment with one player, Jeff Skinner, and how it might handcuff them enough that they can't get Tuch, Benson and Krebs all done. They would still be tight anyway but that retainment means they have to let someone of value go and if not one of those 3 someone else.
I get what you are looking at, but I am not a big fan of ratainment. Obviously if the other team is retaining I am good with it lol. But when you do it it comes back on you especially with all three of those Vancouver players being under contract until the end of the 2031-2032 season.
8.) 09 May 2026
09 May 2026 17:27:51
That’s a valid point - I think there’d be a willingness to retain on Pettersson and one of the other two (preferably Hronek) with pick #3 for a franchise player at #1 overall, a disgruntled prospect in Robertson and an additional 2nd or COL 1st in 2027. Pettersson gives us that #2C for the future, Hronek gives us a puck moving RHD, and we still pick third where we get one of Stenberg, Reid or Veorhoff
Subsequently ship Reilly to the Sharks for whatever they’re willing to play and we get Tuch in FA and we’ve revamped our forward core for the future while effectively rebuilding our blue line.
9.) 09 May 2026
09 May 2026 20:15:33
Why not do what I suggested a week ago, Reilly and Robertson for Pettersson?
10.) 09 May 2026
09 May 2026 21:26:54
Sorry not going into that arena debate again. Not changing my mind.