Hope they can find some way to keep Vermette. Going to be an interesting offseason.
Now I need to let my liver take a break for awhile. At least until Saturday.
there's probably little chance they can. he's going to get paid by someone. he won his Cup so not much reason to take a huge discount to be a 3rd line player here when he can have a bigger role somewhere else.they need to move Sharp, and hopefully Bickell too.
doubt they can move Bickell and between Sharp and Oduya one has to be moved/let walk. they are pinched pretty good and Saad is going to command a nice deal so it wouldn't be surprising to see him get poached.
tough to say never when we've seen contracts like Gomez, Clarkson, and Horton get dealt.Pretty sure Oduya is gone.
Their top-11 players under contract are going to count $61.8MM against the cap next year.
Kane, Toews, Sharp, Hossa, Bickell, Versteeg, and Shaw at F.
Seabrook, Keith, Hjalmarsson at D
Crawford in goal.
Sharp ($5.9MM) and Bickell ($4.0MM) and Versteeg ($2.2MM) would be the best candidates to get rid of. They may have to consider trading Seabrook too since he's going to be a UFA next year.