JBB got the lightning to three straight finals & won 2 cups. Vegas couldn’t repeat, Colorado couldn’t repeat, Florida went to the finals twice only won once, since we last won.
CO is in a tight space. Vegas just let Marchessault walk to Nashville just like we let Stamkos go there too. FL has some tough decisions even with the team friendly Reinhart deal.
Winning consistently is incredibly hard to do in the NHL. You pay the price in salary bumps and lost players to FA, that’s what a flat cap for 5 seasons will do.
The fact we have as much in available space left while arguably being better today than at this point last year, is something I didn’t expect at all.
Edit: edited to add clarity.
ACMop
They’ll be fine. Landeskog will be on LTIR until Nichushkin is no longer suspended and then they can probably terminate Nichushkin’s contract.
Price of winning for Colorado though, just like us, it’s hard to be too upset when you just won the cup
No-Doctor-4396
Media doesn’t know that trades will be made to teams with plenty of cap space to get under the cap. Nothing new.
CruelRuin
speaking of Colorado I’ve seen rumors they want to move on from colton already
just another guy the team let go of at the right time
TehFuriousOne
I get people are salty about Stammer. That’s been tal;ked to death and no need to rehash it, again. That said, we’ve been in the cup run for 5 straight years with 2 cups and 1 second place. That’s not chicken feed and people saying he needs to be fired are more in love with Stammer than the team as a whole. Fact is, TBL is one of the best run orgs in professional sports and that’s in no small part due to JBB. Players change teams and almost nobody has a 1 team career, that’s the nature of the business. Breathe in, breathe out, move on.
Quaint_Potato
In fairness, it was us. We’ll see how Colorado navigates out of it, and if they’re able to as seemingly graceful as we have.
All moves and trades remain to be seen on how they play out of course.
Sad_Bolt
Our fanbase is incredibly ignorant when it comes to these things (which isn’t a bad thing) we’ve been extremely lucky to keep the pillars of our organization for extremely long compared to other organizations and are unfamiliar that things can change. Also add in that most of our fanbase jumped on after Stammer was already on the team so this is the first Captain they have seen us lose.
Atharun15
Colorado isn’t the worst. The Capitals are 13 mil over the cap and using LTIR to cover….and are still over by 4 mil. On the other end, Anaheim still hasn’t hit the cap floor.
noreason13
Yes, losing Stammer sucks. But at the end of the day it’s a business. We still have our boys in Tampa. My wife and I finally got our season tickets a few weeks ago after being on the waitlist for a few years. Gonna be weird for a little bit of time, but it’s always gonna be GO BOLTS!!!
poogle
Is this an old tweet? Cap friendly (God I’ll hate when this is gone) has them at 10 forwards, 7 dmen, Landy on LTIR, 2 goalies – with 3.89m cap space.
They need a couple forwards, but they can scrounge or promote from the minors. Not like they can’t field a full team like the tweet suggests.
ViolentGent33
As an Avs fan that had this pop up on his feed, this has a lot more to do with 2 top 6 players not being able to compete because of one being in PAP and one on IR. Who knows what they could’ve done with those guys healthy in the playoffs.
That being said, what the front office has done in Tampa with the cap and arguably the most competitive time in the NHL is crazy impressive.
SmidgeMoose
I mean, they dropped 700k after this tweet
Allen_Koholic
They can easily get out of cap hell, but it requires them to trade Makar.
This post is mostly sarcasm.
SOPRANO6217
Marchessault, T.J.Miller, Carter Verhaeghe
C0gD1z
JBB you know what to do! Help Colorado out of this cap crunch by trading sheary for middlestat one for one.
nystrom19
Frank is wrong.
He’s either stupid and doesn’t know how the cap works or he’s purposefully posting fantastical lies for views.
If he’s stupid, and just not understanding cap friendly numbers then yikes, a career change might be in order. Just imagine how bad his posts will be going to be going forward without cap friendly.
If he’s just posting sensational BS for clicks then he should be fired.
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JBB got the lightning to three straight finals & won 2 cups. Vegas couldn’t repeat, Colorado couldn’t repeat, Florida went to the finals twice only won once, since we last won.
CO is in a tight space. Vegas just let Marchessault walk to Nashville just like we let Stamkos go there too. FL has some tough decisions even with the team friendly Reinhart deal.
Winning consistently is incredibly hard to do in the NHL. You pay the price in salary bumps and lost players to FA, that’s what a flat cap for 5 seasons will do.
The fact we have as much in available space left while arguably being better today than at this point last year, is something I didn’t expect at all.
Edit: edited to add clarity.
They’ll be fine. Landeskog will be on LTIR until Nichushkin is no longer suspended and then they can probably terminate Nichushkin’s contract.
Price of winning for Colorado though, just like us, it’s hard to be too upset when you just won the cup
Media doesn’t know that trades will be made to teams with plenty of cap space to get under the cap. Nothing new.
speaking of Colorado I’ve seen rumors they want to move on from colton already
just another guy the team let go of at the right time
I get people are salty about Stammer. That’s been tal;ked to death and no need to rehash it, again. That said, we’ve been in the cup run for 5 straight years with 2 cups and 1 second place. That’s not chicken feed and people saying he needs to be fired are more in love with Stammer than the team as a whole. Fact is, TBL is one of the best run orgs in professional sports and that’s in no small part due to JBB. Players change teams and almost nobody has a 1 team career, that’s the nature of the business. Breathe in, breathe out, move on.
In fairness, it was us. We’ll see how Colorado navigates out of it, and if they’re able to as seemingly graceful as we have.
All moves and trades remain to be seen on how they play out of course.
Our fanbase is incredibly ignorant when it comes to these things (which isn’t a bad thing) we’ve been extremely lucky to keep the pillars of our organization for extremely long compared to other organizations and are unfamiliar that things can change. Also add in that most of our fanbase jumped on after Stammer was already on the team so this is the first Captain they have seen us lose.
Colorado isn’t the worst. The Capitals are 13 mil over the cap and using LTIR to cover….and are still over by 4 mil. On the other end, Anaheim still hasn’t hit the cap floor.
Yes, losing Stammer sucks. But at the end of the day it’s a business. We still have our boys in Tampa. My wife and I finally got our season tickets a few weeks ago after being on the waitlist for a few years. Gonna be weird for a little bit of time, but it’s always gonna be GO BOLTS!!!
Is this an old tweet? Cap friendly (God I’ll hate when this is gone) has them at 10 forwards, 7 dmen, Landy on LTIR, 2 goalies – with 3.89m cap space.
They need a couple forwards, but they can scrounge or promote from the minors. Not like they can’t field a full team like the tweet suggests.
As an Avs fan that had this pop up on his feed, this has a lot more to do with 2 top 6 players not being able to compete because of one being in PAP and one on IR. Who knows what they could’ve done with those guys healthy in the playoffs.
That being said, what the front office has done in Tampa with the cap and arguably the most competitive time in the NHL is crazy impressive.
I mean, they dropped 700k after this tweet
They can easily get out of cap hell, but it requires them to trade Makar.
This post is mostly sarcasm.
Marchessault, T.J.Miller, Carter Verhaeghe
JBB you know what to do! Help Colorado out of this cap crunch by trading sheary for middlestat one for one.
Frank is wrong.
He’s either stupid and doesn’t know how the cap works or he’s purposefully posting fantastical lies for views.
If he’s stupid, and just not understanding cap friendly numbers then yikes, a career change might be in order. Just imagine how bad his posts will be going to be going forward without cap friendly.
If he’s just posting sensational BS for clicks then he should be fired.
Either way it’s not good Frank, not good.