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Old 02-26-2019, 01:58 PM   #468
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Originally Posted by Textcritic View Post
How much salary would the Flames have had to shed to acquire Zucker? If I remember correctly they were in a position to add a $4.0 m cap hit without any subtractions, no?
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Actually they could fit him this year, but the summer would be more messy.
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Yup and you deal with that then. It is a solvable enough problem in the summer that it would not have stood in the way of making the deal now.
It just doesn't make sense based on the player coming back. It's not like Zucker is on some huge tear or looking like he's significantly outplaying his contract value etc.

I see him as being incentive to replace Neal while giving you a better player with slightly better cap hit.

a 1st and kylington gets into the stratosphere of assets that i'm not sure the wild have or would see the need to move.

IMO, you move a 1st with neal to get rid of the contract entirely to do another move that sees you bring in salary, you don't move a 1st + neal to take back 20 million in salary liability for a guy on pace for ~35 points.
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