REALLY not a fan of 30% retention, we're going to be carrying too much dead cap space as it is.
If Garland is unhappy then don't hurt our future to satisfy his precious feelings, if he wants out then it's up to him to play well enough to make other teams want to pay up for him.
Yeah it's one of those things where we shoehorned this team in under the cap and we have a pretty full roster minus the right side of D. At this point why pay to get rid of him unless he is viewed to be simply untradeable for the entirety of his contract? If it's that bad then I guess get what you can. His buyout penalty is about $1.8 until 2027-28 so retaining $1.6 for 3 years is better than that.
You would hope he would be tradeable this summer once we finally have more than $30 cap space lol. 2 more years ... hopefully someone would want him.
I think with how tough it's been to shed cap, and with what Rutherford and Allvin said about it taking time we really need to be focused on the goal. Once Myers and Beau fall off I think next year is where they can finally look to make strides. As such we shouldn't be panicking and wasting any resources or cap to get rid of him this year.
Garland isn't doing much these days to enhance his trade value.....you have to check the program regularly to even know if he was out there.
Right now he's playing like a guy who's 5'8".....he's just being completely eliminated along the wall and rarely does anything to get into a scoring position. You wonder if teams are looking at the tape and realizing there's not much this guy can that will help much.
Garland was one of Benning's last contracts......and might be one of the toughest to unload.
I finally figured out why I'am not really a fan of his. He's kind of a puck hog. He holds on to the puck too long and instigates board battles all the time, and then ultimately resorts to firing a poor angle shot or a wayward pass after the play is dead. He likes the chaos theory lol, gets everything flying around him and tries to be an opportunist if the puck pops out. Takes his teammates out of the game when in my opinion he should be using them and his ability to find space and time in the dzone while avoiding contact.
