Marcus Kruger is playing in Sweden this coming season. He will come over to North America for the 2011-2012 season.
Also why do you have 3 centers in your top 6? Unless you planned on putting Sharpy back at the wing? I think Sharp stays at center...possibly with Hossa and Stalberg on his wings. Bolland is the 3rd line center. Keeping Sharp at center and not having Kruger on the roster opens up a spot for a winger...possibly Igor Makarov who recently signed for 550k?
Is that for sure on Kruger? From everything I read about him, Bowman has been really impressed and he has an outside shot at making the team.
As far as top 6 goes, sorry about the confusion, I meant those would be the best 6 forwards on our team, not that would be our top 2 lines. And I think Keeping Sharpie at C is a good idea as well.
Yeah I think one of the top 4 will be moved by next off-season, and I don't think Hjalmarsson or Keith be be going anywhere. As said, moving Campbell is the first hope, especially with the Hawks having a few PMD's in the system...but there's still the problem of his bad contract and his very limited NTC.
It might have to be Seebs that goes. I'm guessing he will get around 5 mil per, and while that's fair, it's probably not doable for the Hawks if we are stuck with Campbell.
Also next year we may have some really nice defensemen coming up. This coming season will probably see Lalonde and Vichnevskiy come up to some degree, with those guys probably sticking for good with the Hawks by the season after.
And then there's Leddy and Olsen. When will those guys be ready? Next year may happen, though the year after is probably a bit more likely. Both of those guys should be top 4 defensemen when the dust settles.
Ive been saying since the tail end of last year, that Seabrook could be used as bait. He has a top of value right now and is going to demand a pretty good contract. As you state the Hawks have a ton of young defensive talent down in the minors, so its not like that cupboard is bare.
I played around with that same site about a week ago, and the concern is what happens if one of the minimum salary types gets injured and there is not another comparable salary in the minors - there is a situation it seems, that conceivably you could be faced with a situation where I guy making more than the guy that went down was making which sort of seemed to mess with the lineup -which might be a concern being so near the top of the salary cap.
That is a very good point, and one that I was not paying attention to when I was doing this. Although the Hawks do have some contracts down in the AHL that if they were brought up they would not damage the cap.
So we can afford 1 injury all season with only 19 skaters on the active roster and no cap room for another player to come up?
I am sorry I like your attempt at his but this is not a viable option, in an 82 game season you expect no less than only 1 injury at a time? I can promise you Stan Bowman will carry 22 skaters on the active roster as well as have cap space on top of that for injuries.
I would agree that that is probably the way its going to shake down. This was an attempt to keep Sharp, and re-sign Niemi while being under the cap. If Niemi were to come in at 2mil in arbitration the Hawks could afford another 500-600k contract. It really all depends on what Niemi gets.
