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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 15, 2020 at 6:39 p.m.
Thread: 20200715 Pens
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>pharrow</b></div><div>Gudbranson had 2 years left and is getting up there in age too. Plus he cost more!
The cap is the cap.
Every year people come up with imaginary reasons why X player should take a 1st to move. It was the same sh!znit last year for Gudbranson. He's this, that whatever...1st...
ok sure....cost nothing to move him.

How about the absolute shortage of defensemen in the league. How about the fact that when Seattle enters, there is 7 less defensemen to go around, when there already aren't enough good ones which is why so many teams have bad defensemen in their 3rd pairings. Or if you are TOR ceci as your 1RD!

There are a handful of teams who have really stacked defense pairings down to the 3rd pair. 1/2 of the teams in the league pretty much has a JJ level player if not more.
So yeah, he'll get moved. It won't cost that much. Because that's how it really is. Which is why guys like Brendon Smith are making 4.5 million per or Polak got 1.75. or Pateryn 2.25, Or Alzner paid through the nose.
I mean really I can go on. But what difference does it make if you are incapable of joining the rest of us in reality.</div></div>

Gudbranson is only 28 and has 1 year after this one while Johnson has 3. Gudbranson was also traded before the flat cap and people thought the cap was gonna go up, now teams are gonna struggle to keep everyone which is why someone like Johnson would require a first or a player around the same value to give up. If teams are desperate to get rid of bad contracts than they need to give up something else with them. From Detroit's pov why would they give a 3rd for Johnson and not get any value back? It's easy to make a trade that makes sense for you, but you need to look at why the other team would take that trade as well.