joshjull
Registered User
I never said that they would.
The point is that it is dumb to take any option that has the potential of increasing the return completely off the table.
Whether it is retaining salary or trading Eichel to a team in the Eastern Conference or Atlantic Division or anything else, none of it should be a non-starter to talks.
Once you get talks started, then you negotiate and take an offer that makes the most sense. Having non-starters could mean that you may never get to hear another team's best offer.
The bolded is not what you’ve been saying. You’ve been arguing , as have others, that retaining 1-2mil might land us a huge reward. But you also dismissed retaining 50% as crazy. Which contradicts the argument in the bolded.
Pretty hard to argue against the idea that Jack at a 5mil cap hit (50% retention) isn’t the best way to get max value in a return. But any trade that happens isn’t in a hypothetical world. So hanging on to cap from Jack for another 4 season beyond this one is a tough pill to swallow. Which is why I think you and others are creating a wishful thinking scenario. Where we can gain a ton with little pain.
The most likely scenario with the retention of only 1-2mil is it had to be done to make the cap numbers work. That it simply helps make a trade happen. Not that it leads to some amazing award coming our way.