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Originally Posted by Jason14h
It is extremely easy and puts not pressure on us cap wise for the next 2 years.
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How can you say that taking on an $8M contract for the next two years, the second of which we have to re-sign two rising franchise players and pay our captain/all-star/best player, does not put pressure on us cap wise? And is extremely easy?
Over the next two seasons we have to re-sign, or sign suitable replacements for on the NHL team:
Backlund
Colborne
Gaudreau
Monahan
Gio
Hudler
Jones
Russell
Goalie #1
Goalie #2
Jooris
Shore
Bouma
Granlund
Ferland
Byron
Obviously not all those guys are going to get signed, but we will have to find replacements for them even if they don't. Not to mention depth defensemen, RFAs and depth players in Stockton.
And you don't see having an $8M contract at the top of that pile as being an issue in 2016-17? Then, after your two year analysis, we're stuck with it until...wait for it...2022.
No. Just no.