They’ll have to be creative (and so will Marchand) b/c if they dump Rodrigues they’ll have 7.9M with 10F, 6D and 1G. A goalie, a 7th dman, and an 11th fwd is going to eat up $3M minimum so Marchand would have to be under $5M. They’ll just sign someone else if he wants to get paid and they’ll add another big name at the deadline to fit under the cap.
Not too creative, they’d just have to make the deal longer to lower the cap hit so they can squeeze in league minimum veterans like Pacioretty looking to win a Cup on a stacked team.
They’ll have no problems getting the lower line-up filler if they keep all their big fish.
6 years for a 37 yr old is pretty damn creative. lol … Sounds like they got the AAV down to 5.25ish.