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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Not sure that would be a big loss. Giordano is not playing like a $6.75M player. It might be beneficial to see one of our big salaries disappear in expansion. I would prefer it were Lucic, but if we lost Gio I don't think that would be a bad thing.
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Giordano had a pretty solid season in most measures. Not sure how to quantify the worth vs $6.75M but most of his numbers showed him to be a solid #2, or lesser #1 so it certainly wasn't out of the range needed to justify it.
But ...
He's 38 and could literally hit a wall at any point. May not be the last year of his contract in Calgary but it could be.
And pretty much guarantees a change to the core and the dressing room if the captain goes and creates cap space.
Love the guy, appreciate what's he's done, but don't give up assets to protect one year of Giordano UNLESS you head more in the rebuild direction and you keep him to move him at the deadline for value.