dirtysaucedonny
Joined: Feb. 2018
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Although I agree with you, I think this is actually a smart move by the Canes. Realistically, they were at very best going to be a second wild card team, and would have needed all those pieces to do so. Even if they did make the playoffs, they wouldn't have made it past the first round and would've likely lost those pieces for basically nothing. Why not trade those pieces for nice building blocks when they can compete? I think that this will be a very good team in 3-f years. Get Faulk, Staal, Williams and Darling off the books and you have tons of cap room to make a run at someone big, or hopefully find some goaltending help, although I think Mrazek is a worth a 1.5 mil trial and could potentially really pay off.