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Originally Posted by dammage79
Chris Johnston @reporterchris 23s23 seconds ago
Jim Rutherford says he can envision both Fleury and Murray returning to #pens next season. Adds that he's not aggressively shopping Fleury.
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Posturing through the media.
He can't truly be dense enough to not realize that he risks losing Murray to the expansion draft since MAF has a NMC that requires protection (unless that rule has changed yet again), and he's also under a serious cap crunch. Currently $2-3 million over the projected cap without doing anything. Teams are offering to take Fleury off his hands, removing both his $5.75 M cap hit for 3 more years and his NMC. Also leave young Murray as the undisputed starter going forward and they can protect him in the expansion draft without any worries.
If you're in his shoes, you get whatever you can reasonably expect the market to bear and get Fleury's diminishing value contract off the books ASAP. Seeing Andersen's value the other day should tell you that you aren't going to get much more than that, so take it and run. Asking for the moon will put you in Jim Benning territory: On the outside looking in.