This is just a cap move. If he gets claimed it’s almost 4 mil in savings. We already have a full top 9. It’s a move for the future. In addition if he clears he has a chance to help out in Utica and then it’s a free call up.
Happy with this pick. I was kinda leaning to Bouchard, but if we took Makar last year I would have been stoked. Hughes is tracking better in the NCAA then Makar and is younger.