The 2007-08 Thrashers as of Today
Adding in the three signing yesterday I thought I would make up a table showing the Thrashers roster if the season started right now. Brace yourself because it isn't pretty. The Thrashers would have to make extensive use of rookies to fill in a number of holes if the season started today (which it does not thankfully!)
Rookies or players with less than a full NHL season worth of 82 games would fill 7 spots out of roster of 23 players. While I am in favor of giving promising rookies like Sterling and Enstrom a shot I'm fairly certain that this team could not make the playoffs.
The good news is that this roster I've put up only comes to $39.3 million. Now Exelby's listed salary is his qualifying offer and he will surely make double that amount so if we make that adjustment we are looking at a $40.0 million payroll. Too bad that the checking line of Holik-Slater-Dupuis line chews up over $6 million of the $40 million payroll.
The big question is what is the Thrashers budget? If it is $40 million don't expect much any substantial signing. If it is $44 million then the team can afford to upgrade from rookie Bryan Little to a veteran centerman or bump Perrin to down the depth chart by adding a scoring winger.
Coming Attractions: I'm working on a post on Todd White. It should be up soon.
| Line | Player Name | Salary in Millions | NHL Game Played |
| 1st | Hossa | 6.000 | 629 |
| 1st | Little | 0.850 | 0 |
| 1st | Sterling | 0.585 | 0 |
| 2nd | Kovalchuk | 6.389 | 387 |
| 2nd | T. White | 2.237 | 414 |
| 2nd | Perrin | 0.750 | 86 |
| 3rd | Holik | 4.250 | 1170 |
| 3rd | Dupuis | 0.880 | 357 |
| 3rd | Larsen | 0.535 | 232 |
| 4th | Slater | 0.945 | 145 |
| 4th | Thorburn | 0.495 | 41 |
| 4th | Krog | 0.475 | 198 |
| 1st | Zhitnik | 3.503 | 1020 |
| 1st | Enstrom | 0.750 | 0 |
| 2nd | Havelid | 2.700 | 469 |
| 2nd | Exelby | 0.690 | 219 |
| 3rd | McCarthy | 0.725 | 247 |
| 3rd | Popovic | 0.517 | 11 |
| G | Lehtonen | 1.850 | 110 |
| G | Hedberg | 1.000 | 177 |
| Bench | Rucchin | 2.125 | 735 |
| Bench | Haydar | 0.462 | 6 |
| Bench | Oystrick | 0.650 | 0 |
Rookies or players with less than a full NHL season worth of 82 games would fill 7 spots out of roster of 23 players. While I am in favor of giving promising rookies like Sterling and Enstrom a shot I'm fairly certain that this team could not make the playoffs.
The good news is that this roster I've put up only comes to $39.3 million. Now Exelby's listed salary is his qualifying offer and he will surely make double that amount so if we make that adjustment we are looking at a $40.0 million payroll. Too bad that the checking line of Holik-Slater-Dupuis line chews up over $6 million of the $40 million payroll.
The big question is what is the Thrashers budget? If it is $40 million don't expect much any substantial signing. If it is $44 million then the team can afford to upgrade from rookie Bryan Little to a veteran centerman or bump Perrin to down the depth chart by adding a scoring winger.
Coming Attractions: I'm working on a post on Todd White. It should be up soon.
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