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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Reilly Smith is a UFA this year: -$5M
Patches has one year after this one at $7M - trade him with some modest retention and recoup some picks.
Dadonov is only on a 2 year deal - you can find someone to take him at 1 year $5M.
That’s $15-17M in money gone right there.
None of those players are essential - they’re luxuries.
The core of Eichel, Stone, Karlsson, Marchessault, Pietrangelo, Theodore, and Lehner is locked up, and you build around that for the next five years.
You don’t lose paying for talent. You lose paying replacement players $5.75M or $4.25M with term.
And they still get to make their “$18M over the cap” run this year.
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Patches has been one of their best players...you act like they won't even miss him
Patches and Tuch combined for 84 points in the shortened season last year
Patches was over PPG he wasn't a luxury he was their 2nd leading scorer