And Karlsson retained to $8-9m as you proposed is a solid contract. While Petersen at $5m is an albatross.
A more equitable proposal would be something like Karlsson unretained with Petersen coming back in return. That roughly balances out Karlsson and Petersen both being overpaid by about $10m on their contracts.
Cal's contract isn't that hard to get out of. Worst case we just send him on a Canadian "fishing" trip like Richards.
Seriously, bury him in minors 1 year, replace with Pheonix, then buy him out the last year.
Karlsson at 8-9 is a decent contract. Part of the reason SJ is looking to move him is because that may not be the case when he is ending that contract at 37.
Forget the names. The point I'm making. Player A makes 5 million & it's a great cap friendly contract so the ask is extra.
Player B makes 8 million which costs more against the cap. His team is a cap floor, rebuilding team that is happy to get a return on the player & doesn't care about short term cap issues because they aren't near the cap while rebuilding.
Player B 8 M - salary taken back can easily be less than player A's cap hit. This makes the fact that Player A is on a good contract meaningless.
It doesn't make sense to pay for a good contract then not have AZ take any salary back so you have to pay the cost of AZ dumping 5 million.
I'm really curious to see if this actually gets done. It looks like AZ's GM is being a bit unreasonable. There are dumb GM's that make crazy trades like multiple first level assets for Lucic when Connor, Barzal, Chabot are still on the board.
Sorry DL, threw you under the bus. Just takes one GM. Hopefully it's not Blake.
