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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Stone is gone in a year and not much of an impediment IMO. I do think he can be moved in the summer if really needed (maybe eat salary). It is Neal and the Brouwer buyout that really is locking up cap money for the next few years.
It's a shame about Stone's injury which caused Treliving to burn a pick yesterday.
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Paying stone 3.5 to sit on the bench is like adding another million dollars to each top line player's salary.
Is monahan such a steal at 7.25?
Every dollar matters in icing a competitive roster.
I'm just saying, there was room to fit Mark Stone into the team's salary structure due to the bargain deals their best players on, that's the advantage of having bargain deals.
There's no room to fit Mark Stone on to the roster when you're paying his equivalent re-signing salary to 2 guys that maybe rightfully shouldn't be suiting up for your team at all.
The senators took back just 650k in future salary obligations over 4 different deadline deal trades.
Salary was absolutely 100% a factor in getting a deal done with Ottawa. Which is why they ended up swinging 3 deals with 2 teams with 15+ million in cap space.
Sure, no one thought Neal would fall off the cliff like this, but when you spill milk on the floor you don't just stare it, you clean it up.