Good Opinion Haver
Joined: Jun. 2018
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The best way to "move on" from Steen would be to trade him to a cap space flush team with a pick or something, have them buy him out, and then sign him back for league min, Brooks Orpick-style. The buyout is 3.5ish in 2020-21 and 1.5ish in 2021-22 so it's not a huge strain on the cap for a rebuilding team and the salary is low enough in real dollars that it wouldn't be a ton to pay out for those two years. Don't really care about signing him back in a vacuum, but letting him play through 2021 as his current contract runs and retiring with the Blues would be a good move, and it's league min so not a big commitment, and he's worth that. Also keeps Armstrong's no-buyout streak intact and doesn't straddle us with extra Steen cap the following year when we need to re-sign Schwartz, Kyrou, and Thomas.