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Originally Posted by wretched34
For those of you saying, "I don't mind this, the return wouldn't have been all that great anyway" you obviously don't understand what is happening in Calgary right now.
The team is rebuilding... getting value for any asset not included in the rebuild is the goal. Kipper just stripped this organization of that by threatening to retire immediatley if he is traded.
If that's the game he wants to play, then he should retire immediatley no matter what.
I say he is made to announce it tonight, be given the start at home in the BOA, then get him off the books, bring up Taylor, let him play the majority of the remaining games, to see if he's worth resigning.... what's the worst that can happen? we draft higher.....
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Honest question: What do you expect the return to be on a 36-year-old goalie, recently injured, playing as poorly as he ever has, who is on the verge of a final year of a stretched-out contract that most people don't expect him to play anyway? Add into the mix family issues, and no desire to continue playing by extending his contract?
The answer isn't a second-rounder, or even a fourth-rounder. The answer is absolutely nothing. And this is before the rumours started swirling that he would just as soon retire than to uproot his family in the middle of (presumably) a fairly serious time.
The 5.whatever million in cap space is by far the most important part of this equation. We should be thankful that the club won't have that committed for next season. Any suggestion of draft picks or a bag of pucks simply isn't realistic.