Rejoint: juill. 2021
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I’m voting for San Jose, but I also feel a bit like both teams may have screwed themselves.
I know San Jose wanted to get rid of Hertl’s contract, so the fact that they got a positive return for him is probably good, though having to retain salary long-term again to make it work must hurt.
I don’t understand this trade for Vegas. I don’t see a place in the lineup for him, and he’ll take up almost $7M in cap space next season that they could have used to sign players who seem like they should be more valuable to them, like Marchessault, Hanifin, Carrier, Dorofeyev, Stephenson, Mantha and Martinez. Assuming Stone comes off LTIR by next season and Lehner doesn’t, they now have about $74M in cap hit tied up in players who are already signed, which doesn’t leave much for the guys I just named if they want to try to bring some of them back. The only thing that would make sense to me would be if they don’t think those guys are coming back, so they brought in Hertl to replace one of them. Otherwise it looks like the trade for Dadonov all over again – wasting cap space on a guy they don’t need and will be trying to get rid of before long.