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Originally Posted by Locke
Its a crazy situation. We've got a decent, young team but they need some help. How do you get it? You either move valuable players/contracts or sell picks.
Are we there yet? I dont know.
On the one hand it feels irresponsible not to try and give these guys some help but on the other hand it feels way too soon.
And yeah, we've got some Boat-Anchor contracts, but we've got cap space coming out of our ass so who cares? If we were up against it it'd be a different story.
At the moment our biggest problem is replacing Kuzmenko.
No, not his production (which is almost nothing) but if they dont re-sign him I think we're under the Cap Floor.
Can we sign an emergency backup goaltender who has never played hockey for an outrageous amount of money just to be Cap compliant? Hold on...I'm looking for my pads...oh thats right. I dont own any.
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No you stick to the plan. Getting this team help would be short sighted. A playoff series is much different than a Monday night regular season game. We won’t be #### stomping Chicago.
Treliving went out and got help after the last fluke playoff and we ended up picking Tkachuk the next season. And Hamonic a season later that probably sewered the team. He was given Gaudreau/Monny/Bennett/Gio/Brodie. A much better group than he left Conorybwith.
Cap floor isn’t an issue. We have 5 RFA to sign and at least 3 of them will get big deals and the other 2 should eat up another 7-8.