yep--the moment he announced Broberg as our draft pick--that was the signal he was playing the long game
People who are complaining STILL about Gusev the problem was and is--we could not afford his 4.5
Many want a quick fix and until we are out of cap hell there wont be any quick fixes.
Coming off the books next summer are(some of course will need to be replaced)
Kassian, Zack
Granlund, Markus
Haas, Gaëtan
Nygård, Joakim
Nygård, Joakim
Jurco, Tomas
Russell, Patrick
Cave, Colby
Nurse, Darnell
Manning, Brandon
Benning, Matthew
Persson, Joel
Bear, Ethan
Smith, Mike
Brodziak, Kyle
Archibald, Josh
Gagner, Sam
Gryba, Eric
So about 25 mill in spending we will have
For those complaining the sekera buy out whether or not the right D man was bought out--we can go around and around on him
but at the end of the day he gets injured a lot and it is not if but when will he get injured again
his minutes this year are going to Persson and Bear--I imagine Manning goes down when Larsson comes back
People may have wanted Russell gone--but Sekera made more sense due to his injury problems
for me Sekera buyout was about getting playing time for the kids on the back end