Edited Jun. 12, 2022 at 1:19 p.m.
Quoting: exo2769
I think you're selling yourself a little short to be honest. That's a ton if money owed to Murray. Sure I get BUF can take the Cap Hit no problem. It's still $15M owed to him. That's a lot of cheese.
Yes, I was going to talk about this.
It really depends what each ownership think of the financial aspect here
If Melnyk was still alive, I would say "Sens will do that" but as of now and unknown future regarding ownership, I don't know.
Management love their JBD, that would be a call for ownership
So since the Sens won't have cap problems during the 2 years left on Murray's contract, they could just sit him to be the 3rd guy or give him a chance to play when healthy. Very good chance he just ends on LTIR too so no need to "dump him" that much
Quoting: littlejerryseinfeld
They value him so highly, they already gave Thomson twice as many games as him and have 3 RHD under contract next year already, leading to him likely FINISHING his elc with under 50 NHL games.
ok I hope/think nobody took this as a valid argument. Development isn't linear, Sens are taking their time to develop their guys (Batherson spent 2 years in the AHL before graduating) and he was PPG at 23 years old. The only exceptions were Takchuk (obvious physical reasons) and Tim Stutzle (obvious talent reasons)
They are not going to rush Thomson or JBD until they are 100% ready
Zub is a piece going forward but Zaitsev and Hamonic are stop gaps (probably wish Zaitsev deal would already be over)
Both JBD and Thomson will get call-ups this season (always depends on injuries), then there will be at least 1 full-time job the year after that. Sens could afford to trade one