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If San Jose is willing to move a 1st just to get rid of Martins contract, they might as well just buy him out. There is no reason that justifies losing a 1st just for some cap space. Hertl is the only guy they'll have to give a sizeble pay raise to next year and by next offseason, Martin will only have one year left on his contract which make buying out not too much of a problem.

Trading a 1st for cap space is what bad GM's do.

In fairness, Doug Wilson is not a great GM Lol

Well he hasn't done anything to make you think he'd do this. Technically no GM has. I get sweetening the pot to get rid of a contract you don't want anymore but if ever it gets to the point of needing to include a 1st rounder to do it, the value in gaining that cap space is removed. Its almost exponential. Losing a 1st rounder to get rid of a contract would only be worth its weight in cap space if the contract was 10M+ AAV. The player would have to be a complete mess also.

I get we all like criticizing our/other GM's but even the worst Gm's in the NHL history would realize it would be better to simply buy out the player instead. Heck even trading a good player with high cap even though you still like the player is a better option. That way you still get full value back at least.

Stan Bowman traded Tuevo Terravainen (a former first round draft choice) to Carolina, to get rid of the Brian Bickell contract. Detroit also moved draft choices out to clear Datsyuk's contract. Its been done. To move a bad 10m contract, you'd be giving the other team a lot more than a first round pick. I respect your point of view, but I think your valuation of draft selections are a bit off, especially seeing how the San Jose selection would be in the 20+ range.

Bickell had 1 year 4M and had an illness meaning he would never really be able to continue his career.
Martin has 2 years 4.8M (one TDL year though) but is also much older than Bickell was.
Hawks also got a 2nd and a 3rd. To compensate the difference.
A 3rd and a 6th isn't a good comparable to that.
San jose is not nearly in the cap trouble the hawks were in.

Datsyuk was traded with a 1st for a 1st. Not with a 1st alone...


My valuation is still accurate. Your just changing the facts to fit your argument. No cap dump has ever been traded with a 1st round pick for anything that wasn't already a 1st coming back. That's all I said. You are misinterpreting my comment.

Never has a cap dump and a 1st (not former 1st round prospect/youngish roster player) been traded for anything less than another 1st coming back. unless you get into semantics of "cap dumps".