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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
This. This is a good contract for him. 4.5m was a very, very bad contract.
I’m not at all surprised he got another opportunity, and I think we all would’ve been happy with him at this price (given the lower expectations and, accordingly, the lower usage).
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I am not surprised he got another opportunity either. But I don't agree with the bold. Our projected lineup:
Gaudreau - Monahan - Neal
Tkachuk - Backlund - Lindholm
Bennett - Jankowski - Frolik
Rychel - Ryan - Czarnik
with Lazar, Hathaway, Mangiapane, Dube and Foo fighting to crack into that lineup.
Before they bought him out, I saw nowhere for him to play (yes, Rychel wasn't in the picture then, but that is LW, I like Mangiapane and Dube fighting it out for that spot). On RW, Brouwer had no place in the lineup this year, and I sure as hell didn't want to see him keeping Czarnik out of the lineup.
And that has nothing to do with salary - for me, anyway. I view salary as a sunk cost (once the season starts), and just want to ice the best team possible.