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DeMelo seems like an amazing value pickup ~ 20 assists in 63 games last year?? Why didn't SJ Qualify him ?
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Sounds like the Sharks knew he was due for a bigger raise and with their planned spending this off-season they had to save money where they could.
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DeMelo is coming off a two-year, $1.3 million contract he signed before the 2016-17 season. To qualify DeMelo, the Sharks would have had to offer him a contract that was 105 percent of his 2017-18 base salary of $700,000.
It’s likely, though, that any new deal for DeMelo — had the Sharks kept him — would have carried a bigger raise, and the Sharks have already made cost-cutting moves in the last week to clear a significant amount of salary cap space.
“It’s obviously their choice. They have the right to do so,” MacDonald said of the Sharks not qualifying DeMelo. “Is it a surprise? I think after the season he had this year, yeah, it was a surprise. He had 20 points in 63 games and played in all 10 playoff games, and a qualifying offer was at $735,000, so you would have thought that they would have. But it was their choice not to.”
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Quick search shows lots of positive comments from Sharks fans:
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I'm surprised DeMelo wasn't issued an offer. He was a solid 6th defenseman. Whoever gets him will be lucky to have him.
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I am very surprised re: Demelo, he was very solid down the stretch. I wonder what DW is thinking, we need a filler at 6D...
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I admired DeMelo's work ethic and I think he has the potential to become a solid defenseman wherever he lands.
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