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Originally Posted by CASe333
The expansion draft is providing some good summer entertainment. Tying up ~15% of your cap in dead weight for three years just to save Dumba is hard to fathom. They couldn't work out some other deal to save him? I assume Bill Guerin asked Suter and Parise to waive and when they said no felt his hands were tied but there had to have been a better way out of this especially with Suter who is still a good defenceman. It's not like they are a young team with lots of value contracts except these two players (for example they still have 30+ year olds signed Zuccarrelo 6M Spurgeon 7.6M). If they do somehow manage to land Eichel they will be saddled with so much deadweight they won't be able to surround him with any talent or depth.
It is nice seeing some of these contracts coming back to haunt teams 10 years later.
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No team has been ####ed harder by expansion than the Wild.
-Trade Tuch so Vegas takes Haula instead of Eric Staal.
-15% of the cap for three years to protect Dumba.
They must really like one of the teenagers - you only stomach that cap penaloty
If you have no intention of being good for five years.