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Forum: Armchair-GM9 janv. 2020 à 13 h 50
Sujet: Buff Back or Not Next Year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MisstheWhalers</b></div><div>Trading a long term member of your team who's committed to the organization and is a class act for a selfish me me me locker room cancer is a terrible idea</div></div>

Of course he's committed, he has a contract until he's 36 with $18M still to come. The problem is that he's become expendable, otherwise the Jets wouldn't have spent the last two deadlines trying to improve the position he plays.

Is Subban ideal, no, but for two years and pushing back his role to a 4 and 2nd PP, you might be able to get back a little of the offensive and physical capability he has. If your team's core who can't handle a guy who likes to do PR and have a good time, what does that say about your core? Montreal got rid of him because Therrien didn't like him. Nashville because 9M with less production then hoped, and they were targeting Duchene, and have Josi, Ellis, and Ekholm. To me a lot of the "cancer" stuff is from fans who just really want the guy to fail, and have so since he came into the league.

Again, if it's not what you want, I still think getting rid of Little and his cap hit is the only way to shore up the Jets D corp, which needs to be done if they want to make another run.
Forum: Armchair-GM9 janv. 2020 à 13 h 35
Sujet: Buff Back or Not Next Year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>masterjuddi</b></div><div>I personally dont see Subban being a fit with Winnipeg even with the cap retention. I would like to see that money get tied up with UFA's or even for cap space in a trade.</div></div>

You don't have cap space if Buff comes back and you keep Little - maybe 2M - not enough to get an impact Top 4 D, and I don't think Pionk and Niku/Heinola/Poolman is ideal as a second pair.

If Buff doesn't come back, you have his 7M available - and can choose to try and blow it all on a Schultz/Green/Vatanen, but then you're in a similar position to this year where after Morrissey/Pionk you don't have a great option to round out a Top 4. You can wait and hope that you can piece that together with a couple of 3.5 guys after teams run out of space.

Either way, if you keep Little, you can be in a position where you are paying a 4th liner 5.2M for 4 more years (or play him up at the expense of Roslovic), who could be a 2/3 on a different team. Which leaves the option of trying to trade him for only picks/prospects to open up space to add in a 5M D, which maybe works if you are willing to not get much (late pick, struggling prospect).