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Originally Posted by moon
A 2nd rounder when the compliance buy-out wasn't an option and most if not everyone thought it was a stupid move trading that pick.
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Didn't need a compliance buyout, he could have been buried in the AHL or Europe with impunity with respect to the cap.
My point is that given a straight up choice between cash or a pick, there's at least one ownership group in the NHL that went with cash. And it was ours. So they may not be keen to pay up a ton of cash to get a pick, which is the entire assumption behind this thread.