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Will Sens Learn Their Lesson?
by Paul on 02/02/09 at 03:04 PM ET
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from Adam Proteau of the Hockey News,
The move was less than a shock, considering Ottawa has been languishing at the bottom of the NHL standings for months. But it doesn’t speak to the real problem with the Sens – namely, the holy trinity of salary cap killers that is Jason Spezza, Dany Heatley and Daniel Alfredsson.
Much like the Tampa Bay Lightning painfully learned, the Sens need to understand teams simply can’t devote the bulk of their cap room to three elite forwards and have enough left over to address the other needs of their team.
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The Sens problem isn’t that Spezza, Heatley and Alfredsson make ~19 million dollars. Those contracts are, actually, really good. At least so far.
The real problem with the Sens is a) that Gerber and Auld, two moderately terrible goalies, are making 4.7 mil. Combine that with the 500k they are paying Emery to not be there and you’re looking at over 5 mil in cap space dedicated to the most important position on the ice and the team gets NOTHING from them. B) The team is paying Fisher 4.2 and he’s been a total non-factor. C) Vermette and Kelly make almost 5 mil between them and are useless. And, finally, D) their D stinks. Not a one of them is earning their paycheck beyond Kuba. They have highly-skilled forwards, yet they buttress that group with a bunch of ham-handed bricklayers on the blue line.
Proteau manages to be 180 degrees incorrect.
Posted by HockeyinHD on 02/02/09 at 03:34 PM ET