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Originally Posted by burnitdown
Stone makes $3.5M for another 2 seasons after this one to play 3rd pairing minutes on our team and brings zero offense. The difference between him and Rasmus (or any other veteran D you can likely get for $1M per year) is minimal so it'd do wonders for our team if we could lose his contract and put that money towards a scoring winger.
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So many more egregious contracts on the team. Stone is more of an insurance piece anyways; Hamonic has had some injury history and we've been lucky with Dougie. Rasmus is good but we would be even less likely to make the playoffs with him playing top 4 minutes for a long stretch.
Stajan + Brouwer are where the money tightness up front comes from and where our problems up front start and end. Once they are gone things will be looking pretty good.