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Also Bura was getting paid like a top 6 forward, not a bottom 6 forward. Yet he was producing like a bottom 6 here. I don't lament losing him, even if he's producing better elsewhere, because in all likelihood, he was never going to produce that here. Not while we have Ovi, Oshie, Vrana and Wilson taking the top 6 winger spots.
Connolly would be nice to insert back into the third line without a doubt, but with the Cap situation as it is, we're already struggling. We'd have to give up Hagelin and Panik for Connolly, and again, he was never going to be in the top 6 if everyone is healthy and his production wouldn't change much. Except he would cost us more than double what he was costing us before. He was so valuable to us because he was getting paid like a 4th liner here. He's no longer getting paid like that.