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Originally Posted by devo22
to clarify, I just meant I don't care about the owners saving actual dollars. It's not like this is a franchise with an internal cap or financial problems, so why would it matter to me as a fan? I do care about the salary cap savings, obviously.
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That is fair. The on ice roster is dictated by cap allocation. Nothing wrong with people evaluating the on ice impact of the trade on that basis. Just have to recognize that you are not fully evaluating the trade, which is a business transaction affecting on ice product and other things too.
When people talk about evaluating the work of Treliving, and whether it is a good trade or not, the real dollars matter.
Two things
- 10 million dollars is not insignificant, even if you don’t care about it
- if, as some have said, Treliving has guidelines by which he must operate, such as not only operating against an annual salary cap, but also operating against a cash flow constraint (and say it is not to exceed the cap), then it may give him
flexibility in the Tkachuk negotiation, in terms of signing bonus