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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I still can’t believe there were no deals to stay away from players and that he actually just picked some of the players they picked.
Cap space is valuable for sure. But you could have gotten great value by taking a guy like Gostisbehere and flipping him with salary retained.
I think they could have taken 1-2 more big contracts and would have still had $20M+ to play with.
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Considering that there’s not many great players left in UFA, and they aren’t likely to get the best ones, they definitely would have been better off taking some more talent through this only opportunity they had to raid other rosters uncontrolled.
Yes they have cap space, and that can be weaponized, but the last few years have shown that GMs are creative enough to get around their own cap issues without involving other teams.
They appear to have the goalies they want, and the top defenseman that they want, but could use top forwards, but there’s very few top UFA forwards available, and those aren’t going to Seattle.
Teams aren’t going to trade Vegas top players just for nothing, and Seattle doesn’t have many assets now to even make that happen. They don’t have any good depth players to trade, and they aren’t in a position to trade picks.