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Originally Posted by Locke
Further to which, Draft picks could be anything from nothing to even a Hamonic, but Hamonic is a Hamonic. At times it makes sense to pay more for a sure thing.
And the 'Bare Cupboards' is laughable. If anything we have a logjam on our back-end. People have been crying about our prospects never getting a shot, and while thats not strictly true its not without basis either.
The Eberle trade makes total sense to me, if Oiler fans are wondering about the low return then phrase it like this:
Eberle to NYI for Strome and $3.5M in cap (which pretty immediately went to Kris Russell).
So: Eberle for Strome and Russell.
They seem to completely ignore the value of the cap space which is why most NHL deals tend to be 'cap-neutral' otherwise part of the value in the trade is the space and sometimes the real dollars depending on various scenarios.
Not seeing that is just shortsighted.
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I don't see those two deals as related. Russell's own $3.1MM cap hit just came off the books. Only $0.9MM of their newfound cap room went to signing him.