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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
At the start of the day Yzerman was going to buyout Purcell and pay him 6M not to play for the Lightning.
Then MacTavish came along and offered Gagner, so Yzerman was down to paying 3.33M to remove Purcell from the team.
Then Arizona came along and now Yzerman got a 6th round pick in addition to only paying 3.33M to remove Purcell from the team.
Arizona gets Crombeen and a Gagner at 3.33M for the next 2 years at the cost of a 6th round pick.
And then there's Oiler fans who somehow think they came out ahead with a player who a couple hours ago was going to have his contract bought out.
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because the Oilers get a winger with size for Gagner...who clearly has negative value based on the fact TB is retaining 1/3 salary and only fetching a 6th rounder..and trade Gagner before his NMC kicks in
trading Gagner for a 6th AND retaining salary (which they can't do anyways) to Arizona would be disastrous...we'd still need a winger to replace him and overpay in the UFA market
not sure how this doesn't benefit the Oilers