Finally… the deal has been struck. So what’s next??

12m is awesome! Here’s why I think it’s awesome for cap compliance!

We have -1.36m cap space on puckpedia, Hyry can go down to the AHL, bringing our cap space to -485k. That is a small enough number that we have more options!!! We can now keep steel and Faksa if we so choose. We can offload Myers and sign a league min guy if we so choose.

So, the question becomes, who do we offload? Steel, Myers, Faksa, or is there another solution?

My mind says we trade Myers and Desmith together, bring porier up, and be able to three way trade for a defensemen with enough retention to fit (cap hit of 1.16 max) to replace Myers.

Idk if that magic trade exists… because of that, I think we will unfortunately trade Faksa.

There is a chance of some sort of upgrade trading Faksa or steel as well using Desmith as the piece to create retention for an upgrade, but I don’t know if that happens. I think we just trade Faksa, and build up cap space for something to potentially happen at the trade deadline.

Source: https://xcancel.com/i/status/2079988381396988414