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Originally Posted by Macho0978
Can't whoever pick up Meier file for team arbitration and block him from accepting the QO? Not sure what that number is but it should be far less than $10M.
Mangiapane should still have value too. If the Sharks are already near the bottom of the league and they trade Meier and Karlsson, how does Mangipane ruin their rebuild plans? Is the 2024 draft worth a complete tank job too? Probably not compared to this draft.
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The kind of contracts SJ will take back will be ones that are expiring and they can flip at the deadline with salary retained. Mangi doesn’t fit their rebuild window and isn’t easy to flip at the deadline.
The ideal player for SJ to go for is one who recently signed a second contract, to keep above the salary floor while not investing in an older asset who will be in decline during the Sharks’ window to win.
This is not to say that Manji doesn’t have value, it’s just that he has no value to SJ.