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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Buffalo and New Jersey can take back the cap without sending much of any back.
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You can't say that with certainty. Both of those teams have been internal cap teams for quite some time. They have not spent to the cap so it is not an automatic that they would just welcome another higher salary because they have space. It is much more likely that they make a deal they are going to stick to their internal constraints and send salary out.
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If Taylor Hall is not coming here then I keep Johnny for another year. I just think that Hall wants to be here. Add him to replace Johnny today and the main pieces coming back would be a high pick or top end prospect.
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I think Hall would like to be here even more if the team were stacked with more talent, giving him a better chance to win.
The love affair with the "high pick" is ridiculous. It's like winning a raffle where you have the choice of Mercedes SL550 or a 1-20 chance of winning a million dollars, then stating you're turning down the Mercedes because you're going to buy yourself a McLaren with the million dollars you're getting, when you don't yet have the million, you just have a chance at the million. Whats worse is that you didn't bother to read the fine print and then find out that your million bucks is paid out at $50K a year for 20 years, so even if you do win you end up with a new Hyundai in the end because that's the way things developed. Sometimes its best to take what appears to be the lesser because it is a known quantity.