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Originally Posted by Tinordi
GMs are so focused on the immediate salary cap concerns that they undervalue the tail risk of a player not working out and causing significant salary cap issues in the future. I wonder what a GM's discount rate effective is.
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I tend to agree, but at the same time there's usually a way out of all but the absolute worst contracts. The players value will take a big hit (as we're seeing with Luongo) but it's not like they're immovable.
And in the examples where a player does become simply unusable, a shorter term contract wouldn't have really alleviated anything. Look at Drury, Gomez, and Redden; none of those deals were particularly long but all of them are going to be bought out.