This is indeed reasonable, and yet still exacerbates their cap issues. They've now traded 12 mil in cap this year for OEL and Garland, who together are 12.2M in cap. So they got rid of all their bad contracts and lost cap space in exchange for one good contract and one bad one.
If someone does offer sheet Pettersson (which I don't think will happen because no one ever offer sheets anyone), they'll still match, but it'll just cause further problems because it's going to be closer to $10M AAV than $7MAAV. They need it to come in under 7.5.
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