I have pretty much randomly decided to look at the Buffalo Stampede. Out of their top 5 point scorers this season, Dermot Lavelle is paid what is probably a fair price of 6M per season, but the rest of the group - Oliver Konig, Kevin Hamilton, Tatu Makela, and most egregiously Viktor Marius - are all at 3 or 4 million of AAV for the length of their contracts, including some team-friendly long term deals. Marius is of particular interest considering he is being paid half as much as Dermot while leading the team in scoring on top of having one of the top points totals in the league outside of that first line for the Chiefs. Raising his contract to 6M per season and those of Konig, Hamilton, and Makela to at least 5 would cost the team an additional 7M per season. Conor McGregor's 3M salary would be one pretty easy trade option to free up some of that total at minimal impact to the team, and with Leafer Rielly retiring anyways the same could be said for him at this point. Going forward, I think the team would have to move on from at least one of their top 4 defensemen (Makela joined by Metzler, Walker, and McZehrl) or possibly someone like TJ Bayley or Brock Becker among their forwards to keep enough cap space open for these more realistic salaries.

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