New Era - thanks for taking the time to do this analysis. I agree with your points although I believe you can still fit Giordano in on a reasonable term, but you have to find savings elsewhere.
Your analysis does a nice job of highlighting some of the less favorable contracts on the team. Engelland and Wideman look to be our bottom pairing D this year and they are using up over $8M with another $3.5 (Smid) potentially in the press box. These are all useful players but in your analysis the bottom pairing D should be around $3.5 to $4M. Their contracts worked for the last two years due to so many low paid players on the team. However that is changing rapidly. Which really shows the danger in long term contracts and need to plan for the cap more than 1 or 2 years out.
Treliving will earn his money in the next 12 months making some tough decisions and hopefully moving some of our less favorable contracts. If Gio will agree to a reasonable term, I much prefer keeping him.
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