LongtimeLeafsufferer
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Why do you think Ottawa pays Gaborik's salary? If that is a basis of a trade it certainly isn't factual.
Ottawa would have a decision. Draft 4th overalll for a good ELC making a million and then having the ability to spend 10m cap on UFA....for the same price as Marner. As you suggest maybe Ottawa prefers that 7.14m is actually cash paid to Marner.
I do the trade as Leaf, though I don't know if I spend the new found cap on Pietrangelo.