You can bury Engvall in the minors or just buy him out.
This logic of, well the cap is going up, is the same crap we heard from isles management. Then you turn around and we have salary cap issues AGAIN.
You can throw all the numbers and stats, but I use my eyes and listening to his GM, past and present players. I don't want him. For $11.6M, I'll look elsewhere where there are no red flags.
The question of what to do with Engvall (and Mayfield) will likely come down to how you turn them into the lowest cap hit possible. Is Engvall in BPort the best way to go? Are buyouts the best way to go?
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I thought this deadline would have been a prime time to see if a contender needing solid 3rd pairing depth would bite (say, Winnipeg - DeMelo will be a UFA this summer) in return for nothing other than perhaps a bit of contract for the here and now, which the team could have exorbed easily enough down the stretch.
Otherwise, if management would happen to have a few days of creativity in the summer, maybe a different kind of forward in Engvall's situation elsewhere who is earning a tick more for fewer years could be brought in in exchange, if indeed management feels that said player CAN play and help here. There might even be a pick to be had in the process.
For example, does Montreal give you Anderson (5.5 MM in each of the next 2 seasons) and a 4th in the process?
Is that a route to take?
It just doesn't seem like you want to be filling up your buyout slots with sub-4 MM per players within two years of having signed them.
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Sadly, to date, we've seen Lou move out the unwanted contract here or there by attaching them with draft picks.
And as we've also seen for many years now, Lou seems to operate on the basis of a team not really needing to pick more than 5, maybe 6 times, per summer.
