trick9
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This is 100% wrong. His moves this offseason have been unforced errors. He should have known what Kuznetsov, Orlov, and Oshie's contract demands were going to be well before he was forced to dump Johansson for spare change. If he did, he could have traded Johansson before the expansion draft and possibly/probably got a better return for him on top of keeping Schmidt using a 4-4-1 protection scheme.
These mistakes had nothing to do with going all in last season.
How exactly?
If the market was dead after the expansion draft because the GM's knew Capitals were screwed and had to dump someone for pennies, how dead do you think it was before the expansion draft when teams that wanted to deal with Vegas to keep their guys couldn't make those types of deal. Not to mention that teams were propably less eager to add another forward they had to protect themselves. GMBM wanted draft picks only, not a player back. If they dealt Johansson before the expansion draft the return would have been even worse.
Besides i don't know what the outrage is here. Schmidt is a solid D but most teams propably value him at less than 2nd and 3rd round pick in a good draft year. And to fit him in the roster the Capitals would have needed to deal another player to fit Schmidt's new contract under the cap.
I agree that Orpik debacle should have been dealt with better. Either you overpay by a lot to get rid of his salary entirely (and hope to stay competitive at the expense of even more futures), or you buy him out. When it wasn't done, it was not really a surprise that this happened.