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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Probably less about saving the other players and more about guaranteeing that they get Fleury's salary off the books to allow spending on other areas of the team. Nobody wants to pay their backup 5 million I don't think.
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I get that, but in theory they could have traded him to another team and received more assets rather that spending them to get rid of him. So the end cost would have involved losing another player.
Still a head scratcher to me that they are giving a pick along with maf.