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Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 8, 2020 at 1:57 p.m.
Thread: What Jim Rutherford is actually gonna do
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>buffbry</b></div><div>Don't really care, you don't get free cap space cause you need it or want it. You pay for us to take it or your stuck with it and that's the end of that story</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mikearky</b></div><div>Re building teams do not take older players on bigger contracts unless their is a sweetener. Why would Wings take Hornquist for nothing? He is not part of rebuild and will be gone when they emerge from rebuild. Makes absolutely no sense to do so, unless there is a pick or prospect coming along.

Your comment that we are not making the playoffs in the near future is correct, but taking on that contract will ensure we take even longer as it eats cap, take a roster spot from a prospect and he does not fit into the new upbeat and speed of the NHL or our incoming rookies.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BStinson</b></div><div>Just because a team sucks doesn’t mean they’re a charity for the league.</div></div>

I really don't understand where this narrative is coming from because the opposite happens all the time.

Bad teams CONSTANTLY help out good teams with clearing cap space while giving up basically nothing. Just in the last year Eric Gudbranson, who is bad and on a bad contract through next year, went to the Ducks for a seventh. Anaheim also took Backes with a tiny bit retained from Boston and while you can say they gave up Kase they also got a decent prospect and a first round pick in that deal for a player they had obviously been willing to part with for a long time. Subban had been underperforming for nearly two years and had an extremely high cap hit and yet Nashville had no problem getting a few picks back for him. The Coyotes knew Kessel had the Penguins by the balls and the Coyotes were the only taker and yet Pittsburgh didn't pay to shed his salary. And the Blues just cleared four million bucks of space without attaching a sweetner. All of these trades occurred between now and the last Stanley Cup.

Obviously these teams aren't getting much if anything back for these contracts but Hornqvists underlying numbers have been fine as he's been aging and he almost scored twenty again this year. Obviously things can change- and the flat cap certainly doesn't help things- but the idea that teams have to pay big sweetners to move contracts just doesn't hold water when you look at player movement throughout the league in the last few years. And the teams that have done it we all make fun of for being stupid for doing it- like Chicago trading Teravianen with Bickell