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Originally Posted by Dagger
So my question to you is, what is the competitive point of having so much cap space? It's definitely good to have some flexibility but we aren't using roughly 20% of what's available. What's the good in letting that much sit idle? For short-term purposes(say taking a contract for a year or 2) it does NOTHING for us. I don't think we're gonna have a NYR style off season any time soon and we aren't a team like Colorado where we have a glut of youngsters that will need to be paid shortly, or a Florida/NYI where there is a budget. Why not take advantage of the fact that we have owners who say they are willing to spend?
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There isn't one. What is the competitive point of using the cap space for the sake of using it? You
categorically state we could've gotten more had we retained salary, but you don't know that. You'd have to be an idiot to assume that Feaster wasn't going to eat money had a GOOD deal come along that required it. He said it wasn't on option on that deal because he didn't, it saves face. Feaster says verbose sh*t like that all the time and NOW is when you believe him without questioning it at all? Please.
You need to factor in that you can only acquire things that teams are willing to part with. We got a 1st in a deep draft, a goalie who has been lights out in every international competition in the past 3 years and who is now doing very well it in the AHL and will likely make a great backup in a good system, and a guy who looks to be a solid 3rd pairing defenceman. That's a pretty good return for an average 1st pairing defenceman, don't over value Bouw. Sure, maybe we could've got more had we eaten salary, but what? Another Cundari? What good would that do us? We should just give teams money to collect all of the average things we don't want? If we had gotten a 2nd instead of a 1st, you'd have a point, but instead you don't because the return was good.
Your whole problem with the money is the fact that we're not spending it, even though Feaster has said we WOULD spend it in the right situations. You can either believe him, or you can not, and if you don't, you need to drop the whole "well ownership said we could spend..." thing. Do you think he's not doing his job? Don't you think with 13 million in cap space he's looking into taking advantage of teams that need relief? What we shouldn't do is take on garbage players (which you aren't suggesting) or a glut of throwaway prospects (which you are suggesting) that take time away from players WE chose and players WE are invested in. There is a contract limit you know. As well, teams aren't stupid, it was a deep draft, you think saving 2 million for one year was going to get them to give up more than their first? Please.
The whole problem with your position is that you aren't logically taking in the situation of other teams and just assuming that if we throw money at them, we'll get what we want. Anything we want is going to coveted by that team, and as we've seen this year, teams are forcing their cap to work this year because they know it's going back up next year. We can sit and wait until teams need to save money, but we can't force teams to want to save money.
Honestly, you think St.Louis or Detroit cares about two million for one year? Yet you casually believe we shouldn't? Teams having been spending above this current cap, so spending right TO this cap is likely no issue if it means they don't give up valuable picks or prospects.