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Originally Posted by Vinny01
I just think having a bunch of $5M forwards littered throughout the second and third line is a terrible play and that is what this trade does.
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Just took a peak at the four teams remaining in the playoffs, and while I disagree with you on the 2nd line (your 2nd line should be stacked with "$5M forwards" or players on their ELCs), the third line is where things really do need to thin out. A third line of Bennett - Jankowski - ??? could end up being a great strength for us, but that RW spot...those "???" cannot under any circumstance be Troy Brouwer.
Look at these final four teams...if Troy Brouwer is on this roster next season, what an incredible failure that is. He's not an NHL quality player, and he makes $4.5M. What a disadvantage for the team depth-wise. If you look at the final four teams and what they pay their players, Troy Brouwer would be the absolute worst contract/worst player on any of the 4 teams (not counting the cap-dumps Vegas has sitting on LTIR). You just can't afford to overpay a player that shouldn't even be in the league anymore and expect to win.
Buyout wise, you can afford to pay Brouwer the $1.5M it would take to get him off the roster.
Tampa pays Carle $1.833 this season, and for 3 more seasons.
Vegas is retaining $2M on Brassard this season, and $1.12M on Emelin this season.
Washington has no dead cap-space.
Winnipeg is paying Stuart $1.46M and $0.58M next season.
Dead cap space, as long as it's not crazy, can be stomached. Using a player that effectively kills a roster spot and hurts the players he lines up with cannot be done while also expecting to have success.