Well, one big side benefit to buying out Suter was that it allowed MN to protect Dumba in the ED. His status has quite quickly changed from "available" in trade, to "unavailable".
Where did Guerin even mention Dumba yesterday? You're speculating that these buyouts were done in order to keep Dumba, but they could have gone 4+4 and kept Dumba anyway. They could have bought out just Parise and kept Dumba. Maybe Dumba gets traded after the expansion draft, or after this season.
I think the Wild were more worried about trading and later the player retiring leaving the Wild with cap recapture. I think this way the Wild know about the dead cap for the next 4 years without getting hit with an unexpected penalty in 2-3 years when someone like Suter retires. Easier to cross off the cap space now than frantically scramble to making space in an offseason down the line.
I can see him offering 5m to each totally destroying the rest of our cap meant to fill holes.
Incorrect. Not if one or both of them would have been an important contributor to the team, or if a trade would have been worked out. Now with Parise that on-roster contribution ship was sailing, in major part thanks to the management and coaching staff ensuring a broken relationship by treating him the way they did. But we could have expected an important contribution to the blueline out of Suter for at least a couple more years. Now the Wild are guaranteed to have that full 4 year handicap with nothing on the roster to show for it. Like I saw another poster say, they took the cap recapture gun pointed at them and pulled the trigger themselves. Any way you try to look at this situation, this was one of the worst GM decisions we've ever seen in the NHL. There is no way around that fact. The team has no realistic shot at a Cup for at least 4 years, and a good year will just be making the playoffs. It only makes sense if you completely blow it up and rebuild, but that's obviously not what the team is planning to do. And as a bonus FAs will be wary of coming here if you get treated like they did. It won't help Kaprizov's chances of staying here long-term either. Bill Guerin has no clue on how to run a franchise, and this move was the culmination of that.
Unless I keep missing it, what is this penalty.
So he did it to get a player or two or a few on a 1 year contract? This is even more bizarre.
So just to clarify, IF (again I keep stressing this because the other option now, is GUARANTEED dead cap, and in this hypothetical you have to ignore other ifs like he or suter keep playing somehow, or get injured at that age and is LTIR, or his organization actually TALKED with them about this all apparently) but if, let just take Parise, he retired next year, the team would have dead cap of $7.5million + $6.45million for 3 years?
NOBODY KNOWS, dude. It's been 24 hours. Let's wait and see what plays out. He isn't going to announce his plan to everyone. He has a ton of cap space now, which gives him more options now than he had with Parise and Suter on the team.
