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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
Sounds like these AHL All Star/NHL Tweener types (Gilmour, Lazar, etc.) are getting cheap one-way deals and squeezing out the slightly higher salary demands from the likes of a Garnet Hathaway and other established NHL journeymen.
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Eh... maybe.
But teams giving 1 way deals to tweeners is more about them flexing their bigger budgets over small market teams. They get first choice of the tweeners because they can afford to pay NHL salaries and not counting against the cap in the minors while smaller market teams struggle to give that much money for depth.