Carolina better be able to work more of their defensive magic on Dumba because going from Pesce to him has catastrophic potential

And at that cap hit as well. He's someone who should expect to be taking a paycut (since he's less valuable now) especially going to a contender.

Too bad that trade will never be offered by the Canes.

Overpayment for Debrincat. Ottawa can’t afford him. Just as unlikely we would give Dumba that atrocious deal.

Francis made the bad pick of Gauthier based on pure size, we don’t need a revisit

After that Gavrikov extension, does that Dumba contract look bad? Him aswell as severson will get big contracts due to multi bids

For us yes. We don’t do those types of overpayments to keep us from having bad deals

As @ecupirate07 mentioned that type of signing isn't something the Canes would do. Also, Gavrikov only signed a 2-year deal which explains the high AAV. Severson and Orlov are the top guys so they'll get 6M+, but I don't think Dumba gets as much unless there's a desperate team out there. Would be similar to paying Klingberg 6M imo (as in paying for what they were).