Brian39
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- Apr 24, 2014
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Talking about this summer, the J-Bo and Gunnar injuries are absolutely brutal for us. I've never been part of the crowd that wanted them gone and I think they both take too much criticism. But all of that was couched in the assumption that one of them would be getting moved this summer as Ed and one of Dunn/Walman surpassed them. We can afford to keep one next year, but we can't keep both. And now they are both hurt long term, won't be returning until camp (best case scenario), can't be bought out and no team is going to trade for them until after they recover from injury. Which means they will be taking valuable cap space and drastically limiting our ability to spend money over the summer (I know we can exceed the cap over the summer and then use LTIR, but unless they are gone for an entire season we will need to leave space to bring them off LTIR and be showcased for a trade).
Having both suffer long term injuries is a complete disaster for our ability to shed cap space.
Having both suffer long term injuries is a complete disaster for our ability to shed cap space.