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Originally Posted by logan_izer10
Why? He doesn't fill any of our needs right now.
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plus he earns 7m a year until 2018 ... so if the Flames decides to take that horrible contract off the Canes hands, it better comes with a lottery pick or it simply makes no sense. And given the direction the Canes have been going, that is never going to happen.
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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Does that ever actually happen, a team taking on a bad contract in order to get another asset alongside it (high draft pick). I always hear talk about it, yet I've never actually seen it happen. Sutter trading Primeau a while ago is the only one I can think of, yet that was for a 4th liner. Just once I'd like to see a big name player with a bad contract move along with a high draft pick, like the media always claims is going to happen.
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Feaster talked a lot about it, but it obviously never happened. The thing is that with the invention of the salary cap, the draft became so much more important than before. Teams treat 1st rounders like treasures these days and GMs will consider every other option before shipping one out. Buying 1st rounders by taking on bad contracts is a nice theory, but it never happens. Draft picks are too important building blocks in the NHL right now.