Johnny Gaudreau

The New Jersey Devils are considering a $10+ million contract for Johnny Gaudreau. Will this hurt them in salary cap space in the long run?

Eventually, the Devils would have to make a hard decision. The Devils could get one of their top prospects signed to a discount. Listen, this isn’t telling the Devils not to sign Johnny Gaudreau. They can easily figure this all out, and it’s really not putting them in a pinch for four or five years. It’s wild to think about, but the Devils had a lot of short-term deals for important players. The Devils have an expected $57 million in cap space in 2023. With the contracts already in place, barring they move one of Zacha or Wood, the Devils now have $33 million in space. What does that do to the Devils bottom line now and in the future? $11 million to Gaudreau, $7 million to Bratt, and then a combined $6 million to Zacha, Wood, and Boqvist, and the Devils now have around $2 million in cap space. The Devils are going to be giving Gaudreau the most expensive contract on the team. The Devils still have to find contracts for Jesper Bratt, Pavel Zacha, Miles Wood, and Jesper Boqvist. They already assigned Wood to arbitration. So, the Devils are losing their $26 million in cap space quickly. The New Jersey Devils are not facing a salary-cap crunch.

Looking around the league, you notice teams like the St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames, and the Philadelphia Flyers that are currently trying to clear cap in ...

With free agency starting today, the Red Wings will be heading into it with $31,000,000 in cap space which is more than enough to make something happen in free agency. That’s at the point that you are grateful to be Red Wings fans. That could be the reason they are able to land one of the big names in free agency.

On Tuesday evening, Johnny Gaudreau informed the Calgary Flames that he plans to enter free agency and won't be re-signing with the team. Gaudreau, who is ...

"I want to win, and I believe after signing this deal, we will be able to add the right pieces along with myself to accomplish that goal: a championship." Malkin has spent his entire 16-year career with the Penguins. Only Mario Lemieux and Sidney Crosby have played more seasons in Pittsburgh with 17 to their credit. The Flyers would need to clear significant cap space in order to make a deal with Gaudreau work. In a surprising turn of events, Evgeni Malkin is re-signing with the Pittsburgh Penguins after stating that he would test free agency. Copp spent the entirety of his first seven NHL seasons with the Winnipeg Jets, and he earned a reputation as a steady defensive forward. After spending the first six seasons of his NHL career with the Canadiens, Lehkonen has really found a great spot in Colorado and now he'll spend the next five seasons with the Avalanche. On Tuesday evening, Johnny Gaudreau informed the Calgary Flames that he plans to enter free agency and won't be re-signing with the team. The team traded Vitek Vanecek to the New Jersey Devils earlier in the offseason and Ilya Samsonov signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs once free agency opened. Kuemper is fresh off of a season in which he put together a 37-12-4 record to go along with a 2.54 goals-against-average and a .921 save percentage. As a result of his incredible performance, Marchment got a four-year contract worth $18 million from the Dallas Stars. Marchment will have to play up in the lineup in Dallas, so it will be interesting to see whether he can continue to produce at a high level in an increased role. Giroux had previously spent the first 15 seasons of his NHL career with the Philadelphia Flyers before the franchise traded him to the Florida Panthers prior to last season's trade deadline. Following the move to Florida, Giroux had three goals and 20 assists to cap off the 2021-22 campaign.

As Johnny Gaudreau parts ways with the Flames, will the Flyers look to sign him in free agency? By Jordan Hall.

Will he have the same mindset in this spot with the Flyers, who are trying to rebound from a 25-46-11 season? Daily Faceoff's Frank Seravalli believes the Flyers, Devils and Islanders will be candidates for Gaudreau. He also didn't rule out the potential for a mystery team. But it will take more subtraction and a major price for the soon-to-be 29-year-old. "It’s just how aggressive we want to be and how aggressive can we be, that may dictate how many transactions we have to make. The Flyers bought out Oskar Lindblom's contract to clear $3.33 million in space, as our Adam Hermann covered Tuesday. However, if the Flyers want to add a player the caliber of Gaudreau, who could demand upwards of $9 million a year, they'll need to make more room with a move. He's close friends with Kevin Hayes and the two had a dominant year playing together at Boston College. He also has a connection to Tony DeAngelo, a fellow South Jersey native.

Calgary Flames left wing Johnny Gaudreau plans to test the free-agent market, general manager Brad Trevliving told reporters Tuesday.

"It is my strong belief that this was a family decision and I respect that fully. "I firmly believe there's nothing more we could have done. Per Pierre LeBrun of TSN, Gaudreau is coming off a six-year, $40.5 million contract. Calgary reportedly posted an initial offer of $76 million before upping the ante to over $10 million per season. Seravalli reported the same. My sense is #Flames have put an offer on the table for Johnny Gaudreau - north of $10 mil x 8 years - that would make him not only highest-paid player in Calgary franchise history, but among richest in #NHL.

If Gaudreau walks, it likely won't be because of money.

With less than 24 hours to go before free agency, there's a growing sentiment the ...

The Islanders were coming off a 103-point season but were still years away from playing in a new arena and had yet to show any sustained post-season success. The Islanders play in the first fourth-generation building at UBS Arena. Before last season, they reached the playoffs three consecutive years, falling a series shy of the Stanley Cup Final twice in a row. He is looking for what he believes to be the best situation that checks boxes for both the player and his young family.

For the first time in his career, Gaudreau will be an unrestricted free agent. It's time for the Flames to plot a path forward without him.

On the other hand, the Rangers – through a combination of skill and luck and being in Manhattan — managed to pull off an aggressive rebuild. Again, it’s a step down in talent – more so with Marchment than Burakovsky – but this is a path the Flames might have to take. That’s tough work because there aren’t a lot of players like Tkachuk. The flip side is that he’s extremely valuable, and teams might give up a haul to bring him in. Even if it’s hard to win a trade with Tkachuk going out the door. Great as Mikael Backlund is and was in the playoffs, that kind of tandem is not something the Flames have had. Using Gaudreau’s previously earmarked cap space to sign someone like Andre Burakovsky or Mason Marchment would give the Flames a top-six winger and probably enough money to address holes elsewhere in the lineup. He just won the Stanley Cup with Colorado — where he was a force in the playoffs — and had a career year, scoring at a 100-point pace. There is the salary cap to consider, still. What are the Calgary Flames going to do now? And the timing for Treliving is brutal. It’s not the decision we wanted to hear, but we respect it.” “It’s a disappointing day, to say the very least,” Treliving said on a video conference call Tuesday night.