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Originally Posted by New Era
I said this in another thread and I restate it here as well. Every dollar overpaid to one player has to come out of the budget elsewhere. You really need to see the numbers in action to get a better understanding of what a few dollars here and there means. Take a $70M budget as an example, which is a fair number to use considering the cap and the space you need for call-ups for injuries and such. I would think a healthy budget breakdown is going to look like $40M on forwards, $24M on defense, and $6M on goaltending. So something like this, taking names out the mix.
$7M-$7M-$5M
$3M-$5M-$3M
$2M-$3M-$2M
$1M-$1M-$1M
$.75M-$.75M
$7M-$5M
$4M-$3M
$2M-$1.5M
.75M
$5M
$1M
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Great post NE, this breakdown really gives us an idea of how screwed we are for how much above the $$ value of a 2nd pairing D when Gio regeresses. Now we have Brodie/Hamilton locked up for a good term, but we will probably have 3 $7M players (Monahan, Gaudreau, Bennett) so the dollars have to come somewhere. Frolik is already a touch on the high side for a 2nd line RWer.
Tough situation... I honestly thought this would get done in July. Now that its dragged on, and looking at this breakdown (and the fact that we got Hamilton) I'm not sure we can actually fit Gio into the mix here if he wants big term/dollars.