Joined: Mar. 2021
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Hughes is a career -34 in 129 games. He is a great offensive D man, but he can be exposed in his own zone. You can't hand out huge cap hits to players who won't provide the best overall value per dollar. $7m is the absolute max I would give Hughes, if he demands $8m, I would probably just let him walk and take the compensation draft picks. If you want to make a winning team, players either take team friendly cap hits or you let them go. Tampa Bay is in the finals all the time largely because Brayden Point came off a 92 point season and resigned at $6.75m. Since then, he has put up 56 points in 42 playoff games. That's how you win cups. Well, I guess it also helps to be almost $18m over the cap but that's another topic altogether.