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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
I'm not worried about the cost, or opportunity cost or future negotiations or any of the like. It's all extremely small potatoes here.
However, regardless of salary cap context it's still an embarrassingly high contract for a player who's barely an NHLer.
After stewing on this for some time now, the only logical reason I can think of is Treliving wanted to spend the max possible to avoid dropping below salary floor of injuries occur while affecting the competitiveness of the team the least. He gets a decent cap hit for a player that will be good in the room, but not make the team better in the standings
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I think you're right, though I think the future implication is just that Burke and treliving are willing to drop $3m on a third tough guy, ever. It mightn't matter now, but I don't know that their desire to spend money and roster spots on tough guys is going to go away when they decide to stop tanking, and it sure could matter then.