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Seattle ain't the Arizona Yotes. They've got financial muscle. Hitting the cap floor will hardly be a problem for them. Wouldn't surprise me if they hit the cap ceiling in the efforts to be competative sooner rather than later.
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Myers is playing like a top 4 D for us. Holtby right now is a very overpaid nothing special 30+ year old backup. Unless Holtby ups his game, if I were Seattle, I’d know who I would pick.
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Good luck getting any coach of consequence under those terms. You'll get a hungry new guy in the minors looking to break in as a head coach in the NHL (but for eff's sake, enough with the rookie NHL head coaches for us Jim Benning) or a guy who should be sent to the glue factory looking for one last head coaching job. Think I'd still rather have Green than those options.
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They don't overpay for their non-core players. Once a "supporting" player gets too expensive, he gets dealt. Not because he sucks or is bad but because he doesn't fit their structure. Laffs tried to follow that model except some of the core players suck. Case in point, Brandon Sutter. A capable 3C but got too expensive under the Pens salary structure model so they dealt him for a cheaper alternative (cap-wise). Then when Bonino got too expensive, they dealt him too. McCann will get dealt when/if that happens to him.
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Tanev is hardly chopped liver. He’s exactly the type of defenseman we lack the most right now. A great defensive defenseman vs a couple solid ones we currently have (one of whom is Edler). Tanev was 24 years old when Benning was hired as GM. Hamhuis was 2 years older than Schmidt. Edler was one year younger than Schmidt at the time. Bad drafting by Gillis left HUGE holes up front (which is what Benning fixed) but the blueline overhaul has been a failure by Benning during these years. Replacing these guys via trades have been less than good (and I’m being kind).