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Originally Posted by Beatle17
And as soon as he gets pushback, like this morning from Rhett and Boomer, he starts the deflection argument "well what option is better". Then Boomer said Markstrom only costs money not assets.
Hard to have a sane discussion with someone who thinks their ideas are the only ones worth discussing. What does he think he gains trading Monahan money only to give $4M to Anderson and $2.8M to Korpisalo. He didn't even think it lowered the Flames center ice strength.
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This is a dangerous mindset to have on free agency day.
Every 3-5 million is probably worth a second round pick. 5 to 7 million is probably worth a first. And this is only for one year.
If you overpay someone by 2 million a year for 5 years, that's 10 million extra dollars against the cap. It would cost more than a first round pick to off-load something like that.
So the asset may be "free to acquire". But it could end up costing a lot more by using valuable cap space.