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Originally Posted by GioforPM
It'd be a dynasty because no other team in recent history has had as many "core" players (look at Chicago - they just deleted Sharp and Saad - obviously not "core" enough"). And as was pointed out, the last core guy who played a third line role that comes to mind was Gainey - on a pre-cap dynasty.
And cap troubles because you pay core guys big money, and 7 would be far too many.
helm and Abdelkader are not core. They are very useful role players who were plugged in for other departing useful role players.
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I'd say that Saad was a core guy that they were forced to move due to cap problems. They would have loved to build around Saad moving forward. Sharp again, core guy for them for years but forced to move him due to cap troubles. You gotta make hard decisions and move core guys when you win the cup. You can't keep them all. That's the salary cap. If you guys are defining "core" guys as guys who you would always keep and can never move I think that definition is pointless.
As for us, 7 core guys isn't a problem because some of them are making less than 4 million (Ferland, Bouma, Backlund, Bennett atm.)