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Originally Posted by The Cobra
With no salary retained, Stajan has negative value.
Or at least Vegas thought so, as they wouldn't have passed on him if any team would have given any pick for him.
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Flawed reasoning there IMO.
1. Stajan has a modified NTC. So Vegas couldn't select him in order to trade him since they don't know what teams he's allowed to be traded to. They basically would have had to pick him to keep him.
2. A signed Engelland might be worth more to them than whatever they'd trade Stajan for. We've seen defensemen like Engelland be traded for 2nd or 3rd rounders at the deadline. Not inconceivable to think Engelland is just worth more overall than Stajan. And that of course doesn't necessarily mean Stajan is worth nothing.
So yeah. Very, very suspect conclusion you drew there. I'd say Stajan definitely has value.
However given his leadership role I'm not convinced we're looking to move him. And given the importance of his position and the depth you like to have in order to sustain injuries I'm not convinced we're looking to move him.
I won't be sad when his contract is off the books cause I think he's overpaid as a 4th line centre but we don't desperately need the cap space and he's a very, very good depth player at an important position. Tend to think they'll just hold onto him and ride the contract out until Bennett/Lazar/Jankowski have proven he's completely redundant which should happen to coincide with when his contract runs out. Works out pretty well in fact.