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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
So your argument is that if there is a RFA that is worth more than the compensation (worth two seconds for hypothetically) that you can get for a 2nd by offering a 3 million dollar contract to when the team they originally were with can only afford 1.8 million, that the 1.2 million delta is not worth getting a young asset at below market value because the asset may cost 1.2 million more than it may be worth? I suspect teams with a bunch of cap space don’t really care about the 1.2 million bucks.
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No, that's not my argument at all. The numbers, in particular, you made up yourself.
My argument is that you don't spend the money on a player who isn't worth that salary. Every GM knows just how quickly cap space can run out if you start overpaying players. Remember when Treliving was overpaying guys, and it didn't matter because the team was rebuilding? Oops.
To overpay a player
and give up an asset for the right to do so is foolish – which is why offer sheets are so very rare.
At this point, I'm not positive either Holloway or Broberg is worth an early 2nd-round pick straight up. (Don't talk about their draft position. That's water under the bridge, and besides, they were drafted and developed by the Oilers, who are not good at either of those things.) They certainly haven't done anything to earn a salary in the range where a 2nd would be the compensation.