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Old 07-03-2023, 06:03 PM   #959
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Kadri is already turning 33 with 6 years left, so even another extremely unlikely breakout year for him won't get him out of here without a sweetener. The cap going up isn't really relief. It just means players will be more expensive from now on. Players and teams are already positioning to consume it the second it goes up.
True, after his big year any team in the NHL could have signed him for $7 mil but only one GM was dumb enough to do that.

In two years nobody will want to spend their new found cap extravaganza on Kadri. They'll give it to guys they drafted who earned it there. That's what good teams do.
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