Armia is a worse cap dump than Mantha. There’s no way Washington gives you a 2nd and takes on Armia lol

DAL declines. Just pointless to waste high picks for assets of low need. Imo DAL is better off just staying as they are.

it gives them more money space in the long term

Agreed I don’t see how either team not named Habs accepts. Habs get the better players/picks in both scenarios lol

How would Mantha have a worse cap hit then Armia??

Armia is owed $6.8M and isn’t even in the NHL at this point, is 30 years old, and hasn’t broken 20 points in 4 years.

Mantha is owed $5.7M, is 29 years old, and was on 30+ point pace last season, can be 50% retained at the deadline and could even be a further 25% retained by a 3rd team and probably flipped for a small positive asset. He’s only got 1 year left Washington is spending anything to dump him let alone taking on an even further dead weight contract in Armia

1 season left at 5.7 for mantha. 2 at 3.4 for Armia. Caps just suck it up for this season and don’t have a boat anchor contract for next year