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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
There were worse defenseman protected by other teams.
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None of them were 37 years old and a year away from the end of their contracts.
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Yes.. You were going to lose someone, but you could have landed something for Giordano at that trade deadline and not lost him for free.
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The trouble with trading Giordano at that deadline is cap tagging. Whoever acquired him would have been required to have the cap space for his entire $6,750,000 cap hit the following season, even though they planned to expose him in the expansion draft and expected to lose him. It wasn't as simple as acquiring a player on an expiring contract. Nobody was giving up assets for a 37-year-old player with term and a high salary in an expansion year.