This move will probably be lost to history given everything else surround the Senators, but what another awful asset management move.
They traded their 2016 mid 2nd round pick, Jonathan Dahlén, for a 35 year old Alex Burrows in February 2017. Almost immediately they sign Burrows to a 2 year, $5 million dollar deal. 16 months later, they are buying it out. I can't think of any other players bought out after just 1 year.
For such a cash strapped team, the Sens are paying $1.625 million for the remnants of Phaneufs farts, $7.5 million for Bobby Ryan, $4.575 million for Gaborik, $5.5 million for Anderson and now $833k for Burrows' buyout next year.
It is absolutely mind boggling how awful there salary management is.
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