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Originally Posted by Jacks
Just listening to his podcast
Dreger:
"I'm not going to name the player and I'm not going to name the team but I will say this is a good defenceman available in free agency, and there is a handful of these guys out there, a team offered a 1yr $750K deal for this player"
Ferrarro:
"Cause that's what they had left?"
Dreger:
"They just were ultimately bargain shopping and basically just said, you may have been a 4-5M defenceman last season but if you've got nothing here's something and this is all we can do. I would say this is a team that has space so they're not a up against it type of team but my point in telling that story is simply because that's where the system is."
Has to be Hamonic or Vatanen, I'm guessing WPG offer to Hamonic. I'd take either of those guys for 1M.
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Traditionally, hamonic would be looking forward to ~$15M to $20M contract for another 4-6 years. But with a stagnant cap, tight finances league wide and uncertain future regarding covid, no one wants to be the GM paying $4M/yr for the player who is most likely to sit at home if things get scary again. Hamonic probably cost himself $10M by opting out of the playoffs.