“Montreal’s GM Drops Bombshell: What Did He Really Mean by ‘Overpaying’ in Recent Trade Talks?”
The Canadiens will have the salary cap space and draft assets to go after a top-six forward.
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Hughes made a statement earlier this week about overpaying in the trade market but he wanted to clarify that it may have been taken a little bit out of the context.
“I think I was contrasting the two options: one being overpaying in contractual commitments (free agency) versus overpaying in assets to acquire contracts (via trade).
“And it was in the context of signing a 32-year-old free agent to a seven-year deal at X amount of money that you knew wasn’t going to age well, because we’re not that team that feels we’re at the end — (that) we’ve got a three-year window to win and we’re OK living with a bad contract on the backside. It was really more just to illustrate the point that we need to be smart about how we go about this thing because we expect our window to be ongoing six or seven years from now.”
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