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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
There's a lot of assumption in that statement. You are assuming a big drop off in performance. That could happen, as most of these types of deals have risk at the back end.
But right now - he delivers to his contract value.
Lucic will waive, but with 99% confidence I think he doesn't get claimed.
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I also would expose Backlund as well.
You are the one assuming we get value from him.
He has been here for a very long time and has had zero playoff success. To me that is not delivering on a big money contract.
He is bad on face-offs, rarely blocks shots and I have not witnessed a big check on another player in 10 years.
How do you know if we would miss him at all till he is gone?
With little to no team success during his time here what would it hurt?
Sure would free up some nice Cap space to get an upgrade.