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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Ottawa is definitely a treadmill team. Going nowhere fast
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Agreed. Moves like this and Phaneuf are the type of moves that put you firmly in the middle (when things are going well). Putting them on the wrong side of the aging curve, and with little future benefit. I think it makes them top out as a mid tier team.
One thing to realize is that they do have an internal budget below the cap, and these young, producing RFA's are getting a lot of money relative to their production. In real terms Brassard costs them $3.5 per year... Zib might be more like $5M. Over the term of the next 3 years they might save about $3M in real dollars. It's not a ton but does maybe give them flexibility to add an additional piece in the next few years.
To me, these are the kind of moves that Sutter used to have a vision for. If it was Tree doing it, we'd have a difficult time justifying them.