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Originally Posted by Hackey
If Lindholm gets traded some of you are going to be really disappointed. He's a pending UFA. This needs to be viewed as something is better than nothing because Lindholm isn't re-signing.
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If they were smart they'd suck it up and announce that they're retaining 50% of his final year to the league to maximize the amount of teams in the mix and the offers. It's not like us as we have to maximize cap every year as a middling team.
But that small $2.4 or whatever cap for one year might be the difference between 6 teams and 12 teams with offers. It could be the difference in contenders staying away and contenders coming in and saying "this hot prospect we have is two years away from helping, while Lindholm is a 1A/1B centre that could be the difference between a cup/no cup".