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Carolina Hurricane's - Year 1 Contract Oversight, Entry Draft, Free Agency

Posted on May 25, 2014 at 07:00 PM.

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How on earth does this team win the Stanley cup year after year when you sim the game?

The Defense is horrible. 2 84's as your 1-2 punch? Had better rookies doing it.
On that note, the rookies for this team are great. High hopes for Justin Faulk at the back and J. Staal and J. Skinner.

The big problem I have though, is with aforementioned Jordon Staal. 6 Million for the next 11 years. While I can rebuild the Hurricanes around Eric Staal and Skinner as my dynamic scoring duo, I don't think I will entertain 6Mil a year for my second line center. I'd be hard pushed for that on the front line let alone second. Zach Parise and Ryan Suter have a slightly higher earning but they ARE the team. Jordan Staal, is not.

Alexander Semin is as good as gone. 6 years at 7Mil, good luck in the Western Conference.

But other than that, we have 0.290 Million coming up to the Entry Draft and then resign stage. So let's hit that first!

~~Entry Level Draft~~

The Only Top 5 Pick that is a player is Lucas Wallmark, A RW, left handed Playmaker. This interests me great, if Im keeping the E. Staal and J. Skinner line, another playmaker to make magic happen could really stack the points.
Wallmark is scouted to go 5th overall, I might make a move for him. Cam Ward is 29, he has long enough for us to work with and draft / trade his replacement when the time comes!

(Unable to recall) To my surprise we have the 5th overall pick! But first, let me see if I can shop around... And I have the follow trade ready to go...

Carolina Sending:

Carolina - 2013 - 1st (5)
G - A. Khudobin
C - V.Rask

Tampa Bay Sending:

Tampa Bay - 2013 - 1st (3)
D - A.Sustr

And it's a done deal. V. Rask had low 4 yellow stars, but had a very low overall. It may take him a year or two before the overall rises enough for him to be effect on the AHL and progress. Tampa wanted Khudobin and that sorted my cap space issue when I get A. Sustr. Big DFD, he'll be top 6 but off to a good start. And top top it off, we jump 2 spots in the Draft to try and get Wallmark!

First 2 picks are Goalies, so welcome to Carolina Lucas Wellmark!! Seeing that there is still a few 3.5 star goalie later in the second round I will try a punt on a Jason Da Silva, 18, Hybrid goalie just incase he has a good potential. If not, oh well!

~~Resign Stage~~

We only need to resign one player, E. Karlsson (RW - TWF - 56). 3.5 yellow stars, sure why not! Give him a standard rookie contract. Lucas Wellmark is indeed 4.5 yellow stars, only 55 overall. Having come from Sweden he will have to play in the AHL... fingers crossed for this kid! JDS is a 3.5 yellow star goalie. No loss. Could be a gain. Unfortuantly, I have no room to sign these two so player Tommi Kivisto - TWD - 59 - 2.5Y* is bought out along with Mike Murphy - HYB - 64 - 3R*. Both have a small hit for 2 years. But that means I can sign my two new guys!

I have space for one more but it's a goalie spot. No one in free agency looks that great so I wont bother. The other 4 goalies that went top 5 all are 4 star and one 3.5 green star so I feel like the bandit in a robbery in this one!

~~Season 1 - Beginning~~

Im going to go ahead and begin the season, I wont be able to offload either J. Staal or A. Semin for a year or two until teams scrap back some cap space. Knowing how good this and the next draft is, I might try and stock pile some picks. It's only when you assemble the team into lines you realise how terrible it is.

J. Skinner - SNP - 86 // E. Staal - PLY - 88 // A. Semin - SNP - 85
N. Gerbe - PLY - 80 // J. Staal - TWF - 86 // J. Tlusty - PLY - 81
P. Dwyer - TWF - 76 // A. Loktionov - PLY -78 // R. Dvorak - TWF - 77
Z. Boychuk - TWF - 76 // M. Malhotra - GRN - 77 // D. Bowman - SNP 75

A. Sekera - DFD - 84 // J. Pitkanen - OFD - 84
J. Liles - OFD - 81 // J. Faulk - TWD - 83
A. Sustr - DFD - 77 // M. Komisarek - DFD - 78

C. Ward - HYB - 89
J. Peters - HYB - 78

If this team is to make the post season, it lies on our first line and goalie. So realistically, I think we will likely sell off a few players and stock pile the picks.