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Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
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.
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I understand this but let's use Murray as an example. You trade assets, say a 1st and Kyllington for him and his RFA status. It will cost you $5M to sign him, so you have spent assets plus cap space to acquire him with no replacement in the future from loss of draft pick. Now let's do Markstrom, you sign him for $5.5M, all you have lost is cash, kept your assets and have the draft pick in the future to allow you to trade a contract for more assets. Why to you automatically assume you overpay someone?