Re: [Trade] Gudas Traded For Niskanen
This is a great deal for Washington.
1. They get a younger, cheaper player, who is probably better at this point.
2. They dump the contract on a team in division, while getting the team taking on the more expensive contract to retain salary.
It works because this is a GM who overvalues veteran leadership & experience who is employed by an organization in their division that really, really overvalues those things, especially in defensemen.
The last cap crisis for the Flyers was caused by Fletcher's boss, Holmgren, by doing the overpaying for veterans who weren't great. Now that Hextall cleaned up the cap mess, and got fired, they've got a new guy in as the GM who can help them with the organizational fetishes of overpaid defenders and goalies. With MacDonald expiring after this year, they needed another guy to take over.
I'm just glad it wasn't Gostisbehere, Sanhiem, or Provorov going out in this deal. I expected there to be a bad deal for a veteran defenseman, and I think they've got one more in them before the season.
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