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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Points are what you pay your salary cap for.
Intangibles+ are what you get from the bargain bins, ELCs, bridge contracts etc.
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On what planet?
You can't simply go out and acquire a player on an ELC to fill a hole in your roster. You have to draft them, and if you drafted the player, you wouldn't have a hole.
You also can't simply go out and acquire a player on a bridge contract. The way to give a player a bridge contract, as a general thing, is to have a player coming off his ELC.
Players in bargain bins are usually there for a reason.
Brouwer is a tough physical player who can play effectively up and down the lineup. He's an experienced veteran who can help Bennett and Tkachuk develop their game, as Hudler did for Monahan and Gaudreau. He has won the Stanley Cup and can be a role model for his younger teammates in how to prepare for the playoffs. And he can be relied on for round about 20 goals per season. You don't get that package of qualities out of the bargain bin. You might get those qualities individually from four different bargain-bin players, but then you'd be committing four roster spots that the team does not have available.