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Originally Posted by The Cobra
I doubt an expansion team wants to start out losing that many draft picks, especially for a player like Petterson.
Don’t get me wrong, Petterson is a gifted offensive player, but he’s not a Bergeron or a Toews type centre at both ends of the ice I would prepared to break the bank on and give up multiple draft picks for.
He’d be better off signing a couple of the premium UFA’s with his cap space than simply going out of his was to screw Vancouver. What goes around.
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Again....he can make that deal, still have 21 M in cap space to take on other salaries with picks attached. I mean the Flyers gave AZ 2 picks to take on a 4.5M 2 year deal.
Cap space is, by far, the single most important thing a team has to offer right now, and with the flat cap, lost revenues of the last 2 seasons, and some serious cap crunches league wide, he can really set things up for now AND the future.
Will see if it works or what he does exactly, but his team is positioned really well already.