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Forum: Armchair-GM23 janv. à 23 h 26
Forum: Armchair-GM16 janv. à 16 h 30
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>JayTea</b></div><div>And if he didn't buy them out, what then? You get $7.5m Parise who isn't even in the league anymore. Suter? The guy who seems to be the Dallas fanbase's favorite scapegoat? He wasn't very good for Minnesota for a looong time. He was carried by Spurgeon and wasn't good enough like Brodin is to cover up for Dumba's defensive mistakes. That's not a knock against his abilities btw, he was simply never the same player after that ankle injury. And that's ignoring the supposed locker room cancers they were. With or without them, there isn't a GM that would have been able to make that work.

Again, I don't think Guerin has a perfect record. I just think any GM who came in was going to be handcuffed for another year after this and even then, Leipold apparently demands playoffs so bottoming out and going through a proper rebuild isn't in the cards either so while I might not be a fan of every move, I at least understand he's working within a very narrow set of options he can navigate.</div></div>

Suter buyout was awful. He's better and cheaper than his direct replacement of Goli. I'd still take him on the team over any of Goli, Merrill, and Middleton. He'd be less of a cap hit that the buyout + any of their contracts too.

Parise buyout was just as bad. He's the perfect LTI-Retired candidate (back). He's not worth the $7.5m cap hit, but he's worth more than it cost to replace him in the lineup. If he didn't want to play this year that is an extra $7.5m in cap space MN would have to play with. Parise still scored 20g last year from a bottom-6 role last year.

It's not just the 4 years of pain with the buyouts, there is still 4 years after that of $1.67m in dead cap. The buyouts were just unnecessary moves that were made. The Wild still makes the Playoffs the last 2 years and this year is not any worse with them being on the team.

The narrow list of options are of his own making. Fenton set team to just need a goalie and a top-6 center to go along with JEE and there was plenty of cap space. Spurgeon's albatross deal ate up a bunch of that cap.
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