He also could have run a short roster, or just taken the Johansen termination at face value and boldly used that space. But in mid-August teams have mostly already filled up their lineups and their Cap space, so it's not surprising that it's a much more difficult time to move players with salary than it is at the TDL.
Given our subsequent liquidation of other players, I guess it's not ideal that we had to pay to move Glass, but I don't think there's anybody here who thought he was ever going to be a useful player for us anymore? I think just sending him to the minors, taking the buried Cap hit, and then reducing the roster would have been one way to go. Or if you already knew you didn't like Tomasino and Parssinen, just trade them before pressboxing them and tanking their returns? At their lower Cap hits they'd have been easier to move than Glass.