12 mill for Ovi? God the Caps are gonna blow for years to come.

Rumors I heard, hopefully less but I’m going worse case scenario, same for Danault

You cannot get a pick back from Seattle in the expansion draft. They have to take a player without anything coming back. If Kuzy is unprotected then they can take him for free. If you want to get a return for him a trade can be worked out where he goes to Seattle and 2nd goes to Washington with expansion draft considerations and Seattle selects someone else. Maybe Hagelin if you want to shed cap.

I have no idea what is up with this caps team. They do not seem like their normal selves.
In years past you would never see that team sit by when a guy got the hell kicked out of him. BOS is straight abusing OV and the goaltender. Yet there is no pushback on that team.
Hathaway hasn't dropped gloves, Wilson hasn't dropped gloves. Hell there are a half dozen guys on that team I'd expect to see some kind of response from there has been none.
Like what happened? What is the fallout?
I expected someone would have knocked someone's teeth in for the 1st abusing of OV in the corner cross checking him in the face while he's down on the ice. But then yesterday, the rat came by and decked him while he was on his knees and nothing?????????
That's not caps hockey.
Is the team trying to send a message to the front office?
And the refs.....they would never break things up like they do for this series for a pens series. Every series the pens are in, the refs just let things get completely and totally out of hand but here, it's like......no no break everything up immediately.
How sad the imbalance of this series. Like why protect BOS so much? There has been times I thought players should have just been allowed to get at it here. If it was the pens, they wouldn't do **** to get in the way.

Kuzy has entered the chat... Did someone use the word "blow"? Different context, oh nvm.

Better idea, Carlsson Orlov Dillon protected, Seattle pick Schultz and trade for Kuzy after. Better ?

I’m sure there is a team out there that will pay Ov that much but any team that does hurts their chances to compete, it will not make them a contender. What is with teams that pay guys for what they were not for what they are?

Because they don’t want to lose the player, obviously

Yes that never turns into bad contracts for a team that you can’t get rid of

Yes and they are aware of it