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Originally Posted by Textcritic
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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Originally Posted by Bingo
Actually they could fit him this year, but the summer would be more messy.
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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
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.
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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.