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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Can someone clearly explain how one year of entry contract makes a lick of difference to a non cap team? Will we suddenly be in call trouble in three years? I'd fire the whole management if that's the case.
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The concept for those supporting a Chicago styled rebuild is the idea that you can stuff young players on cheap contracts during your big Cup run years. Kane and Toews were lower cap hits making pretty low amounts (3.8 and 2.88 respectively) and a few other players made about 60-70% of next year's salary (huge example is Keith being on 1.5 million), which gave them room to absorb Huet's bloated contract and buy in some expensive UFAs to polish off the team.
Wasting an ELC year on a noncompetitive year for them grinds away at the possible timeline to take advantage of lower wages.