Quoting: Arom5477
So you're telling me...losing Kapanen who has so much potential but is lost on the Pens. And POJ, in your OWN WORDS, "I would trade him in a minute for a decent return from a team desperate for defense." and a not first round pick...For an offensive, top-pair RHD is a horrible trade??
And two good RW's on shorter term deals for a total 1.5M over what Rust would ask for 6 YEARS?
Come on now. Calm the homerism.
1st of all, your assessment is off.
Lets just start individually.
Is ERod worth 3.5 mil....nope. Let him walk.
Is 37 year old Brown worth 4 mil.... nope don't do that either.
So ok, we have cleared both of those, which frankly have nothing to do with Rust and are just bad moves in themselves.
Which leaves us to the trade.
Yes, I would move POJ for a decent return.
And I'm not claiming that Ellis isn't a solid Defenseman.
But you piss away 7.5 million on bad contracts, to let Letang walk, to give up assets for a guy that's going to cost you 6.25 a year?
Meanwhile, there are plenty of good RD available in FA next year.
It's not called Homerism, it's called logic.
How about at worst just give Letang the small raise he's asking for and not waste cap space on two bad forwards?
That's the worst possible outcome that one should expect.