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Joined: Jun. 2023
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I will give you credit, you created a reasonable path to keeping Hanafin, Marchessault, and Stephenson without making totally unreasonable contracts. However, there is a razor-thin margin for error. Any of those contracts is higher, this won't work. Any of those guys get short term injured (not LTIR) or get suspended and you will struggle to ice a full roster. And the cap dumps could cost assets. I still just don't get the Hertl trade for Vegas. Good player, good trade, but it makes the cap so much harder to deal with.