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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
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.
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But maybe the owner's weren't willing to blow a bunch of money. How is their season ticket holder base and what is their operating budget on the year? I bet Francis had some guide rails he had to operate within.