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Originally Posted by Frank MetaMusil
Or maybe it was:
"Leafs player with 30+ goals"
"Hometown kid"
"Back up the brinks truck, he's worth 3 million after suffering a broken back in the cup finals"
We don't really know right?
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$3m is 3rd liner money in UFA. At the time the team was flirting with the possibility of not being at the cap floor and BT had no idea how good Gaudreau and Monahan would become. Raymond was also coming off a decent year as far as a 3rd/2nd liner goes. It was unfortunate that his game deteriorated to the point where he is not an NHL player but I don't recall anyone here predicting that would happen at the time either. If Raymond had put up 35 goals and 70 points over the last two years combined, no one would care, especially if Gaudreau was a 50 point player and the team finished bottom 5 in 2015.