If you do want to “rebuild” having players like Huberdeau and Kadri on some bloated contracts kind of helps IMO. You have to reach the cap floor anyway and this restricts how much you can spend in other areas.
Those two players could hopefully rebound and play up to their contracts for the next few years. So you may as well compete as best you can, just hopefully they do so with less emphasis on trading away picks and signing veteran UFA’s.
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