i dont like it
JT is fine and all but he's going to be asking closer to 15 and for that i dont want him .
i'd rather target a O'reilly someone with a screwed up cap with most of his Contract Guaranteed in Bonus play or no play
he could like Horton go down tomorrow and there is no fincial relief for it we'd just have to find someone to take his cap hit .
the best we could do is LTIR him taking up 75% of our LTIR cap relief screwing us if others get hurt like a Price .
i point out O'reilly because he has possibly the worst Contract outside Price's which means few teams will try to land him .
BUF would be ******** to keep him as its Vanek all over again and if they wait like Vanek their return will be **** for it to the point Moulson buried because
BUF has 3 active buyouts open
all that being said those are the worst case scenario's , ofcourse a health O'reilly has value but its only a matter of time before BUF kills another promising prospect in their never
ending rebuild of doom where they half ass it constantly missing the top pick (see for yourself below )
they need to stop signing high value players like Oreilly just because they have the cap space and start focusing on developing youth as ARZ has missed about as many playoffs as BUF in the past millennium and they've got way more top 10 picks then BUF and WAY LESS 1st round busts
for MTL an O'reilly means avoiding a rebuild getting their 1st top line center since Koivu so even if he does go down like Horton
its still worth the risk given how impossibly its been for 3 GMs to land a Center (technically more as we drafter our last 2 top 6 centers and let them go over bullshit )
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/teams/dr00005054.html
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