The Sharks should have $10 million in cap space to work with this off season

[li0lsh]

San Jose Sharks Have Cap Space To Work With During 2011 Offseason - Fear The Fin

 

[RaiderZar]

San Jose Sharks Have Cap Space To Work With During 2011 Offseason - Fear The Fin

I wish Boyler would re-do for ~$5M per. and add a year or two. I wish we could dump Heatler for the add'l cap space & a '85 Yugo GV. :argue:

 

[Ray_Dogg]

And all that space gets used up re-signing White, Seto, and cheap guys to fill out the roster. If only it was $15 mill in space, sigh. Thanks Heatler.

 

[sjrules99]

I would say resigning white, seto, and wellwood will cost in the realm of 8M. However, if the sharks wish to add a top 9 forward or top 4Dman, they have 2 options:

choice 1: Drop the dropable dead weight. No, this does not refer to heater. I am referring more so to niity and mitchell. Both guys can be moved, or in the case of niity, buried in the minors. Nemo is good for 70+ games, so the backup to him should never cost 2M sitting on the bench. Mitchell at 1.4 is an overpayment.

Forwards: Jumbo, pavs, patty, heater, seto, clowe, couture, wellwood (8)
Dmen: Boyle, murray, vlasic, demers, white, braun (6)
Goal: Nemo (1)
Cap space remaining: 6 Mil.
Needs: back up G, 1 top 9 forward, 1 top 4 Dman, whole 4th line.
Back up G: stalock, griess, journeyman = 700k.
whole 4th line: Nichol + 2 open spots for rookies to fight it out (desjardins, mcginn, wingels...)= 1.8M
3rd line forward: 1.5M
leaves the top 4 Dman need open with roughly 2M in cap space.

*Obviously, they cant add a top 4 Dman without some form a trade either directly for the player or to drop salary to sign as a UFA, but if they have 2M open, then the trade doesn't have to be equal in salary.

choice 2: try to acquire the players completely by trade. The sharks do have a fair number of trade chips including pavs, seto, vlasic, niity, mitchell, and of course, picks and prospects.

I would rather see the dougie drop the dead money on the team, so that he can retain as many of the worthwhile players as possible.

 

[Slimpikins]

10Mil in cap space? Looks like Dougie will have no problem resigning Wallin to a two year 6 Million dollar contract

 

[MrChangoT97]

10Mil in cap space? Looks like Dougie will have no problem resigning Wallin to a two year 6 Million dollar contract :eek:

Scratch that player off the list now.........

Doug's job just got easier now..........j/k