Quoting: glarson17
Labanc is worth more than a 5th
I wouldn't acquire him at all actually. Ottawa is not very strong financially under Melnyk so they always have to be careful about salaries
Labanc makes $5,875,000 the last 2 years of his contract, it's way too much for how he looked the last few seasons.
I'd take a chance on him if Zaitsev or Murray was going the other way
Quoting: CMcAvoy73
Maybe they’re keeping an eye out for after the inevitable buyout. No one is taking a multi year risk on Kane though.
It has nothing to do with "risk"
NHL teams just don't want that "cancer character type" near their team... Evander has been giving multiple chances and time to work on himself, he's apparently still a grade-A a-hole so nobody wants to have him around. Players have agents, these agents talk, the NHL is a VERY SMALL world, no one wants Kane, plain and simple. He'll be bought out and disappear
I'd be PISSED at my GM if he was acquiring him, even with a 1st round pick attached and 50% retention. It'd be like a Logan Mailloux type brain fart.