Quoting: Nqutilus
Cap hit is cap hit, that's a league minimum contract you're adding in terms of AAV, and a couple of seconds is quite a bit, especially in terms of cap dumping (probably should've mentioned that it was in context of cap dumping, not overall value, but I digresss). Also, I do actually agree that the Senators shouldn't dump him, you're not going to contend for a bit.
Yes $750,000 is a certain amount but it won't make a HUGE difference in the value of the cap dump. Also, as it was stated, one of the 2nd round picks was the 60th OA pick in 2021 and the other one was either from NYI (made the ECF in back-to-back seasons) and Colorado (seen as a TOP contender)
Regardless if YOU think the Senators will contend or not, they don't NEED to pay for someone to take him because :
- very high chance he's not cleared to play in a contact league anymore (by real doctors under the Hippocratic Oath) : LTIR
- he has only 2 years left, the Senators cap situation allows them to buy out this contract or just pay him (even if he keeps going from the ice to the IR regularly)
Matt Murray wasn't great in his first 10 games with Ottawa (although the defense was a total mess, not even close to NHL level) but hasn't been a problem at all since. He mostly been quite solid.
Quoting: Nqutilus
Also, I find it somewhat funny that you chose to use April (the month which seems to be a massive fluke in his stats) as a starting point.
lol there's no conspiracy
When they say Matthews has scored 47 goals in his last 48 games, they don't start compiling when he's not scoring.
April is when Murray turned his (really short) season around last season :
- He was coming back from an injury that kept him away for a while
- Sens had a new goalie coach, Murray was also in the process of making substantial technical changes to his game
- Sens also turned their season around mid March and finally were able to defend at a NHL NHL. They barely could for the first 2 months of the season
He has been excellent all 2021-22 season, just had some games were he was exposed as the "team defense" is still a work in progress. Every goalie who has played for this team in the last 5 seasons could testify.
The only goalie who was able to survive this has been Anton Forsberg who totally "broke out" this season and earned him a 3 years contract.