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Originally Posted by flamesfan6
If you were the Seattle GM would you rather do:
a) Pick a player that can get you NHL games and if traded get you some decent return
b) Pick someone in the expansion draft that you may not get anything back from or stay as a 6th/7th/AHL dman
I know which one I'd go with...
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If those were the only considerations, sure. But the Kraken are not allowed to go over the cap with the players they pick, and suddenly there are some mighty tempting high-priced players available, both in the expansion draft and in free agency.
In the circumstances, it's at least possible that Ron Francis doesn't want to tie up $6.75 million in a 38-year-old defenceman, just on the off chance that he might still be playing well enough to have trade value at the deadline.