Cutter Gauthier’s number is up, and the Anaheim Ducks will need to move money

Cutter Gauthier may want $15 million now, and the Anaheim Ducks will need to clear the salary after matching Leo Carlsson’s sheet.

Hello Hockey: David Pagnotta, when asked about the Anaheim Ducks needing to extend Cutter Gauthier, and shed some salary. They seem willing to attach a second-round pick to clear some cap room.

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Shawn: “Yeah. So what happened with Cutter Gauthier? Because now you know, if you look at the timeline of how everything played out, and I believe Carlsson’s original numbers were $11 million, $12 million for his extension. He’s going 18 now.

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If you’re like, if you’re Cutter Gauthier sitting there saying, OK, wait a minute, this guy’s going to be 11, 12 years old, I’m going to be under him. He is now 18 years old. What number will he start looking for?”

Pagnotta: “Well, the number being thrown out there is 15, on that list. So he could come in a little bit on a short deal. They take two years, he’ll still be controllable as an RFA. They’ll give him big bucks at that time. It’s possible. I don’t think that’s the goal in his camp. I know, eight times we’ll get a deal. Look. Obviously, there’s going to be a lot of negotiations going on.

So they’re just done, just over nine million. You can free another mil if you send (Laurent) Brossoit down. But there they are, they’ve been active for about a week, since last Sunday. They started testing the market for some of their boys.

So (Frank) Vatrano, (Alex) Killorn, (Chris) Kreider. Killorn and Kreider, in the final year of their deals. Killer got a $6.25 million cap hit. Kreider got a six and a half. And Vatrano is a little over four and a half, but there’s a deferment on him, in his contract, so that complicates things a little bit, not a lot, but a factor.

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And they have three second-round picks next year, and the conversation is that they’re willing to put a draft pick, which could be one of those seconds, with one of those guys to take a full pop. You know, you send one of Killorn or Kreider, it gives you $15 (million), $16 (million) if you send Boissoit down, there is enough money.

If you move two of those guys, you give yourself more breathing room, wiggle room, and you might sign a replacement among the available free agents, at a discount, so to speak. And whoever it was would have to take it slow. Understand that they will get more ice time, pump up their numbers a bit, get a big contract somewhere else next summer, or maybe in Anaheim.

Going forward after this season, they have a lot more flexibility because both, like I said, Killorn and Kreider are coming off the books. “

Gazzola: “Yes, that’s what I want to find next.

But next season and so on, not this season, which is 26-27 because we’re in a new calendar year, but 27-28, and so on, here’s a lot of breathing space. And yes, they have (Beckett) Sennecke to sign. He still has two years left, so his money won’t start for two years. Even if they sign him to an extension next summer, which, based on how things have gone, how things have gone, things have gone this past summer, I would think the Ducks want to move past that soon.

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So, Sennecke’s money is not really a big deal because, at that time, the cap will be like $122 million, so it’s not that big a deal. It’s just now. And there are ways to be creative, they have to be creative.”

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