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Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 14, 2022 at 8:20 a.m.
Thread: Full Rebuild
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>dpdan</b></div><div>The Boston deal isn’t as bad as it looks. Moore and Wagner are off the books after next year and can be buried in the minors for some cap relief (Boston is already doing that) and Vaakaneinen and Steen are low cost RFAs with potential. The level of salary retention would be the negotiable point of the deal and what buys any draft picks.</div></div>

Ya the fact that their deals expire next year makes it a bit better, but I still don’t think Rutherford wants all this cap retained on the books for so long when they’re literally looking for flexibility. When your retaining 2 m of a guy like OEL, who now have to find a top 4 guy to replace him for 5m just to break even and replace him while not wasting more cap on a bloated D. Hard to do. I guess that’s not the worst one of the bunch but it’s still not ideal imo
Forum: Trade Machine ProposalsFeb. 13, 2022 at 7:35 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 10, 2022 at 5:53 p.m.
Thread: Team Cap Dumps
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Canucks33</b></div><div>I think he's shown that he's a top-3 defenseman on this team and league wide probably solid top-4. 6M isn't terrible for that. I think the popular trend is just continuing from his first 2 years where he absolutely was a cap dump. Similar thing is happening with Pearson.</div></div>

It would definitely be hard for him to come back from how he started his tenure in terms of changing perceptions, but I still think even now on most playoff teams he’s not playing in the top 4. His decision making still isn’t great, and still makes plays that you wouldn’t want a top 4 d to make (just look at the gaff he made vs the NYI yesterday), while also still not putting up nearly enough production. To put him in a position to be most successful, I think he’s 3rd pair with pp2 time. Probably around 3.5m. Just my opinion! I agree with the Pearson sentiment tho!