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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
Seattle being extremely careful with their cap. Gio, Eberle and Gourde the only contracts above $5M. I can see them being a cap savior for a few teams, but sending basically nothing in return for the favour. If they are willing to eat one or two toxic contracts, they could easily end up with multiple firsts in the next two years, and it wouldn't really negatively effect the on-ice product too much.
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Once they sign the RFA's and UFA's they've selected they're going to be over $70 million in cap.
They don't have a ton of wiggle room. When I see that it makes sense why they steered clear of guys like JVR, Tarasenko, Voracek, Duchene and Johansen.