JwillNYR82
Joined: Apr. 2022
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Also, that 4th line is garbage. 3rd isnt very good either, but when youre paying 47 million to the top 6 forward, what else can you do i guess. Its just really hard to win in the playoffs if you cant roll at least 3 lines. Unless you have McDavid and Drias. Although Matthew’s and Marner are about as close to that pair as there in the league. The Giordano contract is such a steal. And absolutely needed when youre paying 3 guys 11-12 million, especially after the 2 years of flat cap and only $1MM raise coming up. The league needs to do something, or teams that have building or rebuilding are gonna get picked clean. The Avs will lose a lot of talent. Toronto cant get any depth. Florida will have trouble repeating last season. Teams went through a lot of losing to build these teams, to not even have a proper window to win, doesnt seem fair. Maybe they can make an exception, or allow to cut one player next season, without it effecting the cap.Those players will find jobs, maybe even reclaim there careers because they’ll get top line minutes again. The Rangers are another team that’ll get hurt due to the cap. They’ve already had to dump a mid-20 year old first line winger, who plays a 200 foot game, in Buchenevich. Now they’ll lose Strome and most likely Copp for nothing after the season. They might even lose out on Kakko is he gets an offer sheet for anything more than 4 million. Just nonsense. They get a 2nd overall pick and cant keep him more than 3 years due to an outside force, and the league does nothing. Bettman is really awful. You would think he would want teams in huge markets like NY and Toronto to to have a longer window to win, especially in a league where continuity on a roster is usually the best route to winning cups
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