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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
So instead of screwing up the cap for RFAs and angering GMs they screwed up the actual money for this RFA angering a GM. I guess babysteps?
The entire contract was centered around Carolina not being a have-team with the ability to spend to and beyond the cap. It's a team that has recently spent around 55M-60M a year now being forced to spend 23M on one player in 366 days, and, should their be a lockout, forced to pay him through that. This was not a contract that Carolina was at all thrilled to match. Especially when they gave away Lindholm and Hanifin because they weren't willing to cave into their contract demands, this was a hard pill to swallow if ultimately an obvious decision.
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And gets him to UFA as soon as possible.
That's a major ouchie too.