Luca Caputi – Tuesday Prospect Report

@ derek:

Of course you can trade assets though. Let’s say Burke trades Beauchemin to Anaheim at the draft for a pick, and then trades Grabovski and Stefanovich to someone for another pick, or a prospect, or what have you. He’s cleared up 6.7 million in extra space, and also acquired some more tradeable assets to try and upgrade those two positions. We can also go over the cap by about 3 million because so much of our cap is tied up in nearly unachieavable bonuses. So we would really have more like 14 million to spend:

Line 1: Phil Kessel (5.4)
Line 2: Nikolai Kulemin (1.8), Tyler Bozak (3.725)
Line 3: Viktor Stalberg (0.85), Chris Hanson (1.0), Luca Caputi (0.833)
Line 4: Fred Sjostrom (0.75), Wayne Primeau (0.85), Colton Orr (1.0)

D-Pair 1: Tomas Kaberle (4.25), Dion Phaneuf (6.5)
D-Pair 2: Mike Komisarek (4.5), Luke Schenn (2.975)
D-Pair 3: Carl Gunnarsson (0.8)

Goalies: J.S. Giguere (6.0), Jonas Gustavsson (1.5)

CAP HIT – 43.733 million

So yea, about 13 million if we don’t want to use the bonus cushion, sixteen million if we want to max it out, but more realistically, somewhere in between is what we’ll have for spending if Burke could dump those two contracts.

@ derek:

Jagr wants to play for whoever can give Cervenka a legitimate shot at the NHL. Burke has proven that he gets his free agents of this calibre ice-time and gets them their oppurtunity. Jagr wouldn’t be that expensive this time around, and is really just a way to get assets we actually want back. For example, we sign Jagr + Cervenka, and then deal Jagr, or both of them, at the deadline to a contender, and get back either a pick or a prospect we actually want long-term. Jagr gets what he wants – the spotlight, money, and a move to playoff contender, as well as ice-time for his young friend. Burke gets what he wants – free assets.

@ Stay Gold Ponyboy:

well, that’s why you use the 16 million to fill out the roster:

Jagr – 3.0
Marleau – 7.0
Armstrong – 2.5
Leopold – 2.0

Boom, the kids are insulated enough to get by and hopefully stay out of the bottom five.