Exactly. I was being optimistic about “Frolik for a low pick.” I was really thinking it would be “Frolik for a low pick and either a $1.5M contract coming back or some $$ retained.”
The whole reason I even made this thread is because I was starting to do some math on why Frolik hasn't been traded yet, and came to the conclusion that it’s either because none of the offers would save us enough money to make it worthwhile... or maybe it was because Tree has another plan to both free up cap space, and also get something back that can help.
Frolik is off the books at the end of the season. If you can move a different contract that both gets us space to sign Tkachuck, plus brings in a prospect or a high pick, and you still have Frolik’s dollars available for next season, suddenly we’re in much better shape than just a simple cap dump of Frolik for $2-3M (realistically) in space would leave us.
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