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Originally Posted by bax
Any chance Backlund hasn’t been signed yet because Treliving is keeping his eyes on on the Tavares situation?
I haven’t been following it closely at all so I have no idea what’s going on, but if we were able to add him this summer you have to think we would transition from “walking” to “sprinting”.
Is it in any way feasible with say a 10.5-11 million dollar cap hit for Tavares?
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That's effectively planning to win the lottery.
You make the decision to move on or not from Backlund as a separate decision, but you can't let Tavares or any other free agent weigh in on that choice.
Remember when we traded Regehr + Kotalik + a 2nd to Buffalo for Byron + Butler so to have the cap space to pursue Brad Richards?
You just can't plan that way.