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Originally Posted by DoubleK
The money was already spent. Trading for Lucic plus the pick was making lemonade out of lemons.
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Trading for Lucic was getting a liability for a liability. We got the bigger liability as indicated by the included draft pick.
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Buying out Neal would have saddled the team with a brutal cap liability for years to come. That truly would have been compounding the problem.
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Taking Lucic has saddled the team with a brutal cap liability for years to come with no possible relief. NONE. What's worse, we are stuck with that play killing liability on the ice. The only way we get out from underneath that mess is if Lucic retires. We are stuck with that albatross until the contract is done, two more long painful seasons after this one. I would rather deal with a $1.9M hit to cap space over the extended period than the $5.25M hit while we're trying to leverage an opportunity window. It was another mistake and a third round pick doesn't make up for the loss of the position in the lineup.