Valid point. Try with McPhee though. Seems gullible
He was real lucky yesterday to find someone to dump Emelin on. He's still got Garrison, Sbisa and Stoner--pretty big contracts for bottom pairing defensemen.
Unless a team thinks that Staal can play big minutes for them you'd have to be crazy or desperately need someone to get you to the cap floor to want to pay Staal $5.7 mil for the next four years. IMO there's no market for Staal and I wouldn't want to use draft picks and/or prospects to entice some other team to take his contract on---or even if we retained 50% dealing any other worthwhile asset would not really make it worthwhile.
It's a ****ing mean thing to do in a way--like a lot of the businessy **** we see all over today. That concussion his brother Eric gave him and the Voracek deflection to his eye has turned him into a shell of the player he once was--though he was never great handling the puck in the first place especially outside the defensive zone.