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The Official 2026 Off-Season Thread: Revenge of the Nerds

Leafin' said:
Thank god. Get this bum outta here.
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Yeah, like on one hand I get Habsy's doubt when it comes to the amount of players we'll add in one off season. But on the other hand, we have a bunch of obvious holes and the assets (cap space, moveable players, and draft/prospect capital) to fill them. I don't see Chayka spending a lot of time "evaluating" a roster that finished 5th last.
 
hockeylover said:
it looks like a shit ton of cap space so it’s hard not to see more than one higher ticket guy really, you’re spending that on something.
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Yeah, if we just ignored all of our needs, the glut in net, & "ran it back" we would be 16 million under the cap. We're not going into training camp at an 88 million dollar spend.
 
With Domi on LTIR, we're actually at $28.5m in capspace, with only two non-min RFA to sign in Maccelli and Robertson.

we also obviously want to move Carlo and will likely try to move one of our paid goalies, which is another $7-7.5m, so more like $36m in capspace.

you could subtract 2-3m from that for the inevitable 2-3 league min guys we'll carry at the bottom of the roster.
 
zeke said:
ha this works even better. gets us $64k under the cap with this roster:

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Traded away in this scenario are Cowan, Woll, Carlo, Benoit, COL 1st and any other picks/prospects deemed necessary.

And of course that's with Domi on LTIR.
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I brought this over from the Around the League thread to discuss more.

Turfing Carlo, Benoit and moving a goalie seems fairly obvious/conservative even.
 
Leafin' said:
Joshua should be moved too.
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If there’s another Treliving out there that’ll take on his contract for free, then sure, go for it.

But we don’t lack for cap space at the moment, so no need to cough up assets to dump his contract unless we’ve gotten to the point we urgently need his cap space.
 
Joshua is overpaid, but its not impossible that he can be useful on the 4th line.

There are other things to get rid of first although it seems the Domi problem has taken care itself.
 
I wouldn't just dump Joshua for nothing.

If we don't need the space, he's an amazing 4th liner, can play on the 3rd when needed, and will get some goals and bring some grit. I'd like to see him under a new coach. I didn't even mind him under Biff.
 
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