Very good points. Some questions/food for thought. Galys cap hit is 3 + mil with bonuses 1.1 without. In 2014 -15 the players coming off the books need to be replaced/ resigned. A top 6 fwd and a top dman are not cheap.
Can a 3rd player be bought out with a cap hit. If so i can see bourque being bought out due to the long term savings and kaberle being bought out too with 1.5 hit for 2 seasons. (2.75 savings next year). I see bourque as much more replacable and for cheaper. I still think the rumoured 1.5 difference for pk is not a problem for next years cap. Hard to fit in next year yes, not impossible but longer term i think its better for the team.

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Start 3c, 3 LW, 3 RW, flex Fwd, 5D 2G

C: H. Sedin(K), m. Koivu, Plekanec, Galchenyuk,
LW: D. Sedin(K), B. Ryan(K), Burrows,
RW: St Louis(K), Hornquist, c neil, alfredson, kassian
D: Subban (K), Fowler(K), Schultz, Kronwall, dillon
G; price(k), ward, hiller

The problem with those buyouts is that you have to find a replacement for that player in addition to using the saved space elsewhere. If they save 2.75 on Kaberle then they have to use that 2.75 to find his replacement AND fix some of the problems you outlined. I'm not sure how it will work out but I'm thinking it might be more wise to just bite the bullet, fill the holes with cheap scrubs and re-load when the money becomes available.

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Not much surprise here but Gomez is on waivers and will be bought out probably tomorrow.

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Forward lines and defensive pairings for tonight's intra-squad game (open to the public).

Pacioretty - Desharnais - Cole
Galchenyuk - Plekanec - Gionta
Moen - Eller - Bourque
Prust - White - Armstrong
Gallagher - Dumont - Blunden
Leblanc - Bournival - Holland

Markov - Emelin
Kaberle - Gorges
Diaz - Bouillon
Weber - Tinordi
St-Denis - Commodore

Subban's the only real player missing. It's safe to say that Galchenyuk will stick for at least 5 games, Therrienand his staff need to see him in real game situations... After that, I bet he sticks and energizes Plekanec and Gionta.

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12 Fwds + 6 Dmen + 2 Goalies - Keep any 12
G/A = 1 pt / W = 2 pts / SO = extra 2 pts

F: N. Backstrom / E. Staal / R. Nash / M. St-Louis / J. Skinner / E. Kane / B. Wheeler / J. Pavelski / R. Whitney / D. Desharnais / T. Fleischmann / D. Brown

D: K. Shattenkirk / C. Ehrhoff / J. Carlson / S. Gonchar / D. Wideman / C. Franson

G: P. Rinne / S. Bobrovsky


POTENTIAL KEEPERS FOR SEASON IN BOLD

My two biggest concerns were secondary scoring and the D. Galch-Plek-Gionta could be the cure to the secondary scoring issues. The problems on D remain in place and with Subban out it only gets worse.

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I would go further, and say that Eller and Bourque on the third line will help in the secondary scoring department as well.

Plekanec is not playing tonight. Don't know how it will affect lines combination for the scrimmage.

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4LW,4C,4RW,6D,2G
G=1 A=1 W=2 SO=3

LW: Wheeler, Laich, Hudler, Backlund, Regin
C: Umberger, Eakin, Brassard, Park
RW: Butler, K. Palmieri, Skille, T. Ruutu, Moss
D: Giordano, Bogosian, Coburn, Niskanen, Kubina, Wilson
G: Khudobin, Nabokov

ding dong the witch is dead!
what an albatross that guy turned into, I'm so glad to be rid of him!

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P=1 DPts=1.2 +/-=.32 PIM=.08 PPP=.4 SHP=.6 S=.015 Blk=.2 Hit=.08
W=2 OTL=.8 GA=-.64 SV=.08 SO=3

Pro (23 keep 17)
C- Filppula,Turris,Stastny,Backstrom
D-Boyle,MDZ,Karlsson,Robidas,Goligoski,Schenn,Seiden berg
G-Anderson,Hiller,Rinne
LW-Malone,Parise,Rolston,Eriksson,Ruutu
RW-Alfredsson,Callahan,Setoguchi,Brown,Ryder,Vrbata

Farm (9 keep all, max 200 GP, 100 Goalies)
Colborne,Leblanc,Loktionov,Perreault,Tangradi,Blum ,Poulin,Markstrom

I love the projected lines in MTL!

MaxPac-Desharnais-Cole
Galchenyuk-Plek-Gionta
Armstrong-Eller-Bourque
Prust-White-Moen

IMO, they have scoring, speed and grit on every line. Should be an interesting year. Also, I feel the D (if Subban signs) is at its best in the last 5+ years. Price is only going to get better too.

Smells like the playoffs already!

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16 teams (keep 18 NHLers, unlimited minors)
Scoring Cats: G-A-PTS-PPG-PPA-(+/-)-PIM-SHP-SOG-FW-GWG
Goalie Cats: W-L-SVS-SV%-GAA-SO

C- Crosby-Spezza-Ennis-Bolland
LW- Kovalchuk-Marchand-Landeskog-Boedker
RW- Pavelski-Oshie-Havlat-Burmistrov
D- Yandle-M.Green-J.Johnson-Carlson-Nikitin
G- Lehtonen-Varlamov-Hiller

Minors:
F: Brunner, Conacher, Adam, Nyquist, Phillips, Forsberg, Girgensons, Killorn, T. Johnson
D: Rundblad, Orlov, Sanguinetti
G: Greiss, Nihlstorp, Taylor, Zatkoff

Just going out on a limb here but if that 4th line is out at the end of games I can see teams filing a bunch of complaints for goonery.

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Galchenyuk and Gallagher are on the final team.

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