thewookie1
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I think when you have a choice to re-sign RFAs at fair deals or even slightly above, at positions of need, and choose not to even when you have the cap space for now and the foreseeable future, that is a strong indicator of operating on the cheap. Whether someone characterizes it as an internal budget or not doesn't matter, when the bottom line is that the organization chooses to spend less at the expense of the on-ice product.
So because they didn't want to pay Mitts 7mil; the only possible reason is that they want to be cheap?
There couldn't be any other possible reason
1. Maybe they wanted Byram more
2. Maybe they didn't want their 3C making 7 mil or shift Cozens to the wing making him a 7mil winger
3. Maybe they wanted to go a different direction and deemed Mitts too slow
4. Maybe they just didn't like the cut of his jib
Right or wrong, there are plenty of reasons they could of had completely independent of "Pegula scared of spending"
Reinhart was bridged by Botts first and then they went into COVID, if there was a perfect storm of cash flow shortages and a lack of desire to sign anyone to a significant contract there it was.
Ullmark wanted to reset his life after his father died; no money would of changed that.