Quoting: Faceoff
OEL isn't dead weight but, he isn't a 7.2 Million dollar defenseman. OEL is between 1-1.5 million overpaid. Which to a normal team isn't a big deal but, with Dickinson & Poolman's contracts, 2,4 in buyouts and Halak's 1.25 next year makes the cap situation troublesome. With Vancouver there are just so many fires burning we didn't need 1 more. I would argue if we could flip Garland for a top 4 RHD Vancouver would win the OEL trade. A 9th seems a little high for Garland 1 for 1 considering Dabrincat got a 7th a 2nd and 3rd.
First of all, it doesn't sound like the new front office views Poolman as bad cap, he simply hasn't had a big enough sample size to be written off as such. With Dickinson, I think the club recognizes his lack of value due to the rumblings of him being a prime buyout candidate, and I'm glad it seems they are going to give Dickinson a chance to bounce back and rebuild some of his value, cause I've been advocating for them to do as much. It's only one down year, he has to have multiple underwhelming seasons before he's labelled as a declining asset. I was shocked when I ran into a few people who thought Dickinson was a bust
You're right that while they aren't in a cap crunch, Vancouver's cap situation is very very fragile, but we can't let that obscure or magnify the individual and unique valuations of each player/asset
It's hard to make an apples to apples comparison between what Garland fetched as opposed to Debrincat, because they were different off-seasons, so no doubt the market fluctuates somewhat within that time. That said, most are regarding the Debrincat trade as a fleecing by the Sens, myself included
I am certainly open to moving Garland for a top 4 RD, but I'm not actively shopping Garland, and I certainly won't move him for any other type of asset unless it's an obvious overpayment