[bluejays]

What I mean by Hamilton is a player of his calibre needs to be brought in. But knowing your hands are tied in contracts like Lucic, you have to be able to get rid of these guys. Lucic is the obvious one though. I look at the bottom two line guys like Backlund now, and while there's a two way aspect to him, at $5.3M for a third line guy ehh. I do think Backlund on the third line is perfect, but at that pay, just too much. Then there are guys like Simon and Nordstrom while getting paid almost minimum, they don't bring anything to the team to even earn that salary. Mangiapane I'm to some degree fine with because you're paying him for potential but this year he's taken a step back. But my point being, there's about $8MM sitting in forwards (including the obvious), most of which should not be in the NHL, and that's not talking about the Defence.


Edit: I'd also put Ryan in the overpaid category up front. $3.1/season at less than 0.5 ppg doesn't seem like great value.