Atlanta Thrashers Salary Cap situation

by JSchon on Jul 10, 2009 5:42 AM EDT Comment 16 comments

We now head to our division rivals (not really) the Atlanta Thrashers who as of now have 19 players signed and ready with about $16.98M in salary cap space to fill though holes. They made a few moves bringing in Antropov, signing him to a 4yr/$16.25M, a little high for enigma wrapped around a puzzle encased in a conundrum. Slater and Thorburn were re-signed to low impact contracts. They did make a significant trade with the Leafs and acquired Kubina, who only had 1 more year on his contract, and Tim Stapleton, who was a RFA who is yet to be re-signed. You have to believe they aren't going to go into the season with Hedberg or Pavelec as their netminders, Lehtonen is a RFA and I'm sure he is their first choice. Colby Armstrong will also be resigned. That will be 21 players in total with raises due to Lehtonen ($5.0M my guess) and Armstrong ($3.0M) which will leave ATL with roughly $9.0M to fill 2 holes for a team who aren't ready to compete for a playoff spot. In 2010/11 they'll have 10 players signed (not including Lehtonen, Armstrong) with $37.0M to use to re-sign Kovalchuk and either re-sign or replace Slava Kozlov (I wish my first name was Slava). The Thrashers seem to be in a good situation cap wise, but will they get Kovi into the playoffs? I give them a 9.

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If nothing else, this series should inspire other people to write FanPosts so we don’t have to see ten consecutive JSchon avatars on the front page. ;-)

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by J.P. on Jul 10, 2009 6:37 AM EDT reply actions

Is there way I can change my avatar for each team? Wait, I dont have that many photos of myself, nevermind.

by JSchon on Jul 10, 2009 6:42 AM EDT up reply actions

Maybe I can have guest writers?

by JSchon on Jul 10, 2009 6:44 AM EDT up reply actions

I could try...

ZING! ZANG! ZUNG!

by crabchowdah on Jul 10, 2009 8:23 AM EDT up reply actions

Try not. Do or do not – there is no try.

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by J.P. on Jul 10, 2009 8:47 AM EDT up reply actions

Wait till next week’s development camp.

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Delores Ibarruri

by gotsparkly on Jul 10, 2009 8:53 AM EDT up reply actions

Nice – looking forward to living vicariously through some of you all next week as I continue to slave away, schackled to my work CPU.

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by J.P. on Jul 10, 2009 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions

I did live reporting last from Kettler last summer, and even interviewed a mom watching her son and asked very compelling questions like “How long have you known your son?”, “If your son was an animal which would it be?”

I’ll be there with my laptop.

by JSchon on Jul 10, 2009 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions

My boyfriend fortuitously decided to fly in for Otakon the same week as development camp. A lucky break there, but now I have two good reasons to tell work to take a flying leap for a week.

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Delores Ibarruri

by gotsparkly on Jul 10, 2009 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions

They could use a Nylander…

by Bald Pollack on Jul 10, 2009 7:27 AM EDT reply actions

Boo ya

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by J.P. on Jul 10, 2009 7:40 AM EDT up reply actions

Walmart could use Nylander

by JSchon on Jul 10, 2009 7:40 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

doesn’t smile enough.

by Natty Bumppo on Jul 10, 2009 8:47 AM EDT up reply actions

Spokesman for Circle K ?

Your favorite meme is dead

by Edanger6 on Jul 10, 2009 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Is Ikea hiring this week?

by RedBirdie on Jul 10, 2009 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions

He’s not that old.

by Scott in Shaw on Jul 10, 2009 6:13 PM EDT up reply actions

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