Peat
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The problem is you're ignoring the salary cap. The reason people think Schultz works at $4 million to $4.5 million, is because it leaves more money to fix the other holes in the lineup, and because a player of Schultz's caliber shouldn't be taking up so much of your cap space. If he's making upwards of $5.5 million, it's not that he's "garbage", it's that a team that's up against the cap is paying a player about $1 million too much instead of using that money more wisely.
This isn't the old days where it doesn't matter if you overpay a guy by $1 million just to keep him around. You have to be a lot more judicial in how you allocate the cap space, particularly when it comes to non-core guys.
Valuing not having to trade for guys ahead of the tightest salaries =/= Ignoring the salary cap
The same way that
Being willing to move guys if their salary demands are too big =/= being willing to trade them for next to nothing
Personally I think people are overrating the value of being really salary efficient. No team in the NHL is paying the best possible price for every player, its not a big deal to do it every now and again. This roster's got a few overpaid players on it already. Moving a few on and adding a few more is not the end of the world, at least not compared to the price we might have to pay for another PP QB on Schultz's level.
As long as they're at a fair enough value where they can be moved again if needs be, I'm not seeing the issue.