Little Fury
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No it doesn't.
Nobody is claiming Zadina is BETTER than Mcleod, only that Mcleod is not worth the 2m+ we are going to have to sign him for if he does return.
It's not about whether Zadina is better than McLeod it's that your assessment of Zadina being a great 5v5 player is unmoored from reality.
The point being that if we can get Zadina for 775k instead, you do that, save the cap for someone like Bouchard or bring in another player, and then move RNH or Holloway back to centre. Makes way more sense than paying a guy like Mcleod who isn't capable of scoring goals in a playoff atmosphere. At least with guys like Holloway they have a potential to do so.
So the addition here is Zadina, a sub-replacement level player and the rest is shuffling the deck, including placing an untested rookie in a position to flop or moving a player who just scored 100 points in a top 6 role into the bottom six (and leaving a corresponding hole in the top 6) just to save like a million bucks (and that's assuming your $2M number is close to the ask)?