[TheScorpion]

I haven't been able to get anything at all for Staal who is an awfully similar player with an identical contract. Bonino is a real solid get at centre and St Loo gets two future assets out of it. You could call Perry a dump but he had perfectly serviceable stats last year.

But I think the most important thing here is the redistribution of cap for St Louis. Instead of having ten million tied up in one big asset that was set to walk for nothing after this coming season they have 2.25 freed up entirely, 5 tied up in a marginally less valuable asset that fills a positional need and 2.5 allocated to a slightly overpaid player who nevertheless also fills a positional need

St Louis had a somewhat precarious cap situation and I've found that in dealing with mine, moving big contracts for more manageable smaller contracts, even if they have less value on paper, results in a more valuable team in the long run