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Originally Posted by bax
I just don’t think “significant returns” are out there in the market right now. Voracek was traded for an equally rough contract, they had to pay a second to get rid of Ghost, nobody was willing to take on Tarasenko.
With the stagnant cap teams just aren’t willing to take on questionable, aging players with big tickets. Not teams that want to remain flexible anyways
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The problem there was the teams didn't have cap space to play with and had to trade contract for like contract. Again, cap space only has value if you can use it. Seattle had a buttload of cap space where they could have taken on these big ticket contracts, then traded them away at 50% retained for decent returns. Tell me you wouldn't roll the dice on Ghost for $2.25M a year? We just Gudbranson almost that much and he's useless at everything! You wouldn't take Voracek at $4.125M a season? A player who is a big RW that scores at a .8 PPG rate would certainly be a big lift for this team. Both of those players would return good draft picks or prospects, and all you're doing is leveraging Seattle's cap space to their and your advantage, and them recouping assets they didn't have. Francis really screwed the pooch here.