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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
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.
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You act as if Stone's contract was some huge mistake. Stone was signed before Valimaki was drafted, and before Kylington/Andersson were known quantities. He was signed before Hanifin was acquired. Before Hamonic was acquired (though Treliving had that one in mind). At the time Stone was the only guy aside from Gio who seemed like he could play with Brodie. It looked like he'd be a number 4/5 guy. And he has played fairly well since being signed.
The team is fortunate that all of their top D prospects have panned out so far. The team was prudent in thinking at least one or two wouldn't.