No Marleau was clearly the issue. You don't overpay for supporting talent like that.
Mind explaining what those multiple assets were Carolina would have accepted for Marleau?
Your wrong , you had a 6 mil Marleau on your hands . You don’t double down with an 11 mil JT , a player you didn’t need.
Dubas figured the kids would give you a hometown discount , gross mistake .
Your situation was unique , you had star talent to pay . Regime had to understand the internal cap consequences
You make the deal bigger with Carolina or any other team . Your dangling an expiring contract , that has value.
You had the first rounder to throw in plus young assets like Kap , Willy, or AJ to throw into the mix .
TB was capped out and they get the first for Miller. They are in worse shape cap wise than the Leafs
WTF did Dubas get out of that trade when they were cap strapped , a 6th rounder.
Even the Kadri deal was dumb. You had this gold contract to dangle and you got an expiring D whose skill set you didn’t need and a third liner in Kerfoot and you gave nearly the same money as a Kadri.
Barrie is as good as gone and you got no long term upside for this great contract.
Kadri should of netted you a Pacioretty type deal involving an A level prospect in return .
How the fuck can you be capped out barely 3 years into a rebuild , that’s poor cap management
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