So much talk for a spare parts dman. Geez.
Overall, this isn't a big deal. Long term and over the course of a series of similar, questionable roster/team management decisions, the teams left with bad contracts, or multi million dollar players sitting in the pressbox.
Factor in the deadweight of Belesky and Hayes sitting in the pressbox on forwards. And the real likelyhood of one of McQuaid or K. Miller sitting on a healthy defense on a regular bases. That's about 10 million of cap space eating hors d'oeuvres in the press box.
Again, it's not this move alone. But it's the overall decisions and contracts that we've accumulated. Those bad contracts wouldn't be too horrible if we had a better team in front of them.
Sweeney really needs his picks to be homeruns at this point, because the a majority of the player's he's acquired have been disappointing at best. If his picks don't work out, this team screams mediocre or worse in the near future. Add in some questionable player choices (Hayes over letting Connolly walk, K. Miller over C. Miller), we stay older and have larger contracts. Sitting a guy making a million in the pressbox hurts a lot less than benching one of making a couple million. Again, each move in a vacuum, not a big deal. It's when they do it on multiple facets of this team.
