[Bryan Bastin] Les rumeurs à Nashville disaient que Johansen était de toute façon sur le point de partir – je crois vraiment que sans partenaire commercial, il aurait été un candidat au rachat.
The rumors in Nashville were that Johansen was on his way out anyways – I really believe that without a trade partner, he would've been a buyout candidate.
— Bryan Bastin (@BryanBastin) June 24, 2023
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Not surprising at all that he would’ve been. Smart move to get the money we would owe him off the books in two years instead of 6 or however many would be
He was absolutely getting bought out if the Avs hadn’t traded for him. He has lost 2 steps since 2017, and there was no way Trotz was going carry $8M at 3C.
Nobody likes retaining salary, but this was a great move for the preds to make.
Honestly, going forward, this will be a big trade. RyJo was really done as a 1C in 2020-21. He never totally recovered from the Kesler injury and was a passer only. I will salute him, but this trade is better than carrying the buyout at 2x term.
Great move for the preds especially if they are trying to offer sheet someone like DeBrincat
I am so fucking happy rn, I really hope this marks the start of a house cleaning for Duchene, Carrier (maybe Fabbro too) and us looking really young and fast next seaon, the Nashville Admirals 2.0 with Alex DeBrincat (hopefully…) and Forsberg leading the way.
There had to be a specific reason they did this because there is no value in paying guys not to play.
This is obviously this first of two (or more) deals and hard to judge until you see the other parts like the McDonagh deal last summer.
There were a couple of ways to get out of a guy, both with ramifications, and they chose this one.
By trading him, they saved $2.6+ mil in real money and got $4 mil in cap space. If they bought him out, they would have saved $5.3 mil in cap space the next two years but paying 92 would have drug out for four years instead of two.
The only thing they got was cap space, so they wanted the cap space. But they didn’t want the most cap space or they would have, again, bought Johansen out.
They also used their second of three salary retention slots. If they were just looking to weaponize cap space, they would have bought 92 out.
Now they have an $8 or 9 mil whole and are still able to maneuver with injuries, etc.
Now they can really afford to either overpay an RFA-type center like PLD, take on a really bad C contract plus assets, or something in the middle like trading for Lindholm.
I expect another deal shortly. It sounds like this is like when they traded Subban for little and used the money to sign Duchene