Ted Hoffman
The other Rick Zombo
- Dec 15, 2002
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I have to stop you here. We have no cap space this season, we had little to no cap space last season, and we had little to no cap space the season prior. It's been that way since about '14-15. He's had the team so strung against the cap, we didn't have room to go make late-season moves to improve the team.He managed to control our cap situation very well with tying up our key FAs to reasonable deals.
The Schenn deal required unloading a 1st to get rid of Lehtera's contract because it was such a brutally bad contract, and it was a gross unforced error by DA handed out based on about 30 games of play. That's terrible asset management, even if we got Schenn [whose defensive play is starting to go back to what it was in Philadelphia, which is why they were totally fine moving him in the first place]. ROR cost us "only" the 1st + TT because we agreed to pay the signing bonus; if Buffalo's got to pay that, the price goes dramatically higher. But you mention the key point in a sentence right after this: Not everyone [sic] of his trades have worked out, but the majority have worked in our favor. And yet, the team continues to get worse over time.Our bad contracts were all under 5 million per year (So no Lucic types) and he was able to move them for solid returns (Schenn and ROR).
Plus, when you say "our bad contracts were all under $5 million" I think there's a bunch of people who want to remind you of Steen's current contract.