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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Sure, just like Beauviller was an asset and not a cap dump. Kuzmenko was not a target in this deal. Vancouver had to move salary out and taking Kuzmenko's salary was a requirement to move this forward. That is a salary dump no matter which way you spin this. Could he be a good reclamation project? Yes. Is he worth a gamble. Also yes. Is he a cap dump. A resounding yes.
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Semantics here, I think. But IMO, 'cap dump' is a player of no value, who you have to pay, to get another team to take them off your hands and free up some space.
Is he worth $5.5M? No, certainly not the way he is playing right now. But I think Mangiapane is a good comparable - a guy not earning his cap hit, but a player none the less. And a player who, as a pending UFA, will generate a return at the deadline (being next year for Kuzmenko).
For me, that is not a cap dump.