The 10 mil spent is an oppourtunity cost. That could be spent on other things. Replacing our best scout that we lost for example, but there are a lot of possibilities with 10 million real dollars. The salary floor was all but reached when the contract was signed
He also might not be taking a young player out of the lineup this season, as no one is ready to make the jump, but he is signed for 3 years as is the rest of our D core. A young D man should be ready to step in within 3 years (I hope to god) and we have a logjam of highly paid defenseman signed long term. This adds to that log jam
And I really dont think anyone is making this into an issue. Simply that it is a huge overpayment and the benefits of the contract wont come close to outweighing the cost
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