Edited Aug. 27, 2021 at 11:52 a.m.
Quoting: iLoveMTL4Eva
He's from Minnesota
So? So are roughly 30% of all American born players currently in the NHL. It really has very little to do with anything.
People think that just because a players from Minnesota that they can just justify sending them to the Wild as either a cap dump or because they're unwanted. BeCAusE ThEY'Re FrOm HeRE. Meanwhile they completely ignore if the player they're sending us is an actual fit or something we would want or need.
The answer is, we don't want or need McDonagh.
Even with that retention. The Wild's leftside top 4 D are already set with Brodin and Goligoski, who already come with an $11M price tag between the two of them as it is. That's $13'ish Million on the left side alone with Kulikov included. And you want us to move our 3rd pairing defenseman on a reasonably cheap contract just so we can play someone who's making at least $5M there instead?
Seriously?
Furthermore, that's not even taking the buyouts into account just yet.
$12.3M in dead cap space in 22-23.
$14.6M in dead cap space in both 23-24 and 24-25.
So, no. Absolutely not! It doesn't matter whether he's from here or not. He doesn't fit. Simply speaking, Kuliov is much more valuable to us as it is.