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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Why not just keep him the three years and be actually rid of him instead of basically rid of him.
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If he's a viable player, sure.
If he's the fringe 30/30 all-situations winger he was last year, then you let the contract play out.
But let's not pretend this can't get uglier - if he's this bad next year, they have to look long and hard at buying him out, and if he's even worse the year after that, they have an obligation to do it.
Again, this is the owner's mistake. The owner is on the hook to fix it. There's a reason Huberdeau got the exact same number they offered Johnny.
I don't care if they hate paying guys to not play for them - Huberdeau barely plays for them now.
It removes the distraction, and with the state of the cap and the state of the roster, it doesn't impact their ability to do anything.