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Originally Posted by Nelson
There’s lots of evidence Stone is essentially a replacement level defencemen. If they can move his $3.5 M contract, I’m all for exchanging that for a much cheaper depth defencemen.
I also think Stone needs to be moved soon if the Flames have a chance of getting anything for him. As time passes, I think the value will drain from him because, in my opinion, he is the defenceman-Brouwer. They literally have the exact same goals above replacement: 2/100.
Just thinking about ~10% of the cap being invested in 2 replacement level players is sad, but every team has bad contracts.
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I mean, if you have a veteran who's a bona fide NHLer who hasn't bounced around back and forth to the minors, and is on your third contract or more, $3.5M is fine? On a 23 man roster with a $79.5M cap, the average salary is going to be just under $3.5M. Your ELCs are going to be below that, your stars are going to be above that.