Weird day. I had about three hours to contemplate the Ducks paying James Wisniewski $3.25 M next season before he was shipped off to the Islanders for a 3rd-round pick. And rather than write something meaningful, why not take the patented Sleek cheap way out and hide behind this cartoon?
Here's where this leaves the Ducks salary-wise, stealing extensively from Capgeek. Still, of course, missing Bobby Ryan and Teemu Selanne.
PLAYER | CASH | CAP | YEARS | PLAYER | CASH | CAP | YEARS | |
Corey Perry | $5.38 | $5.33 | 3 - UFA | Lubomir Visnovsky | $6.00 | $5.60 | 3 - UFA | |
Ryan Getzlaf | $5.13 | $5.33 | 3 - UFA | Toni Lydman | $3.00 | $3.00 | 3 - UFA | |
Joffrey Lupul | $4.25 | $4.25 | 3 - UFA | Cam Fowler |
$1.40 | $1.40 | 3 - RFA | |
Jason Blake | $3.00 | $4.00 | 2 - UFA | Luca Sbisa |
$0.88 | $0.88 | 1 - RFA | |
Saku Koivu | $2.50 | $2.50 | 2 - UFA | Sheldon Brookbank |
$0.70 | $0.75 | 2 - UFA | |
Todd Marchant | $1.25 | $1.13 | 1 - UFA | Brendan Mikkelson |
$0.69 | $0.69 | 1 - RFA | |
Aaron Voros | $0.90 | $1.00 | 1 - UFA | Danny Syvret |
$0.60 | $0.60 | 1 - RFA | |
George Parros | $0.88 | $0.88 | 2 - UFA | Brett Festerling |
$0.53 | $0.53 | 1 - RFA | |
Nick Bonino | $0.88 | $0.88 | 1 - RFA | |||||
Dan Sexton | $0.75 | $0.75 | 1 - RFA | Jonas Hiller | $4.50 | $4.50 | 4 - UFA | |
Matt Beleskey | $0.66 | $0.67 | 1 - RFA | Curtis McElhinney |
$0.57 | $0.54 | 1 - UFA | |
Kyle Chipchura | $0.65 | $0.65 | 1 - RFA | |||||
Ryan Carter | $0.73 | $0.63 | 1 - UFA | |||||
Troy Bodie | $0.50 | $0.50 | 1 - RFA | Nathan Oystrick Buyout | $0.20 | $0.20 | 2 | |
14 F, 8 D, 2 G | $46.49 | $47.14 | ||||||
Top 12 F, 6 D, 2 G | $44.14 | $44.89 |
For the Ducks, the "CASH" columns matter much more than the "CAP" columns, and it's worth noting that there are about $900k in performance bonuses included in these numbers, $500k on Fowler's contract alone. There's definitely money to spend and plenty of cheap contracts that could be used in a trade -- Ducks seem remarkably set to deal from strength with an over-the-cap team. We can finally do a reverse-Mathieu-Schneider!
Either that or Scott Niedermayer surprises us all with his annual un-retirement. That'd be awesome.
Feel free to add your reaction in the comments -- I'll write more about it later.
Go Ducks.
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