If you're Labanc and you're given these two options what do you take?
Sign a 1 year, 2 million dollar contract but told it would prevent the team from signing Joe Thornton.
Sign a 1 year, 1 million dollar contract so the team can re-sign your center Joe Thornton.
Sure he's 40, but he was still a capable 50+ point player who makes his wingers better. Maybe Labanc would rather play with Thornton than some random AHL callup that could utterly screw up his production and big(ish) contract he would get next year.
Maybe I'm trying to defend a terrible contract too much but that's the only thing that makes sense to me.
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