Agreed but it might actually become an opportunity depending on what options the Canes really have and how they play it.
One issue with the concept of going out and signing Kadri, you can't exceed the cap in the offseason by more than 10%. The Canes are over the cap right now. You cannot LTIR players until its time to get cap compliant for the season. That leaves the Canes $7,133,083 maximum in offseason cap room at the moment. But they also eventually need to get under the real cap. LTIR for Pacioretty is an obvious step, but if they add Kadri, that still doesn't get them all the way there. So we would be back to our discussion from yesterday, trying to figure out how to get back under the cap. There are options there of course.
Pacioretty was the answer to the 'we need a scorer' problem. With him gone most of the year, are we really going to try to proceed with:
Svech-Aho-Jarvis
Turbo-KK-Necas
Fast-Staal-Jack Drury
Martinook-Pederson-Kase
I would be surprised if we proceed like that.
Not sure what the Canes are really going to do, but I would be surprised if we don't do anything. Kadri might already really be off the board already and not an option or might have no interest in the Canes and the money the Canes can offer might not be enough. But that sure seems like the most obvious solution, both for this season and future seasons.