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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefIllini" data-source="post: 1374714" data-attributes="member: 588522"><p>Fair enough maybe it was an exaggeration but guys like Toews, Seabs, Anisimov, and recently Keith aren't living up to their contracts (well maybe Keith is playing to his contract, but thats because its relatively cheap), all of which have some sort of NMC attached to them (not even mentioning Crow, but if this injury doesn't derail him I'm fine with his contract). Toews, Seabs, and Anisimov make up around 30% of the cap space. Thats a big chunk of change going to declining players, all of whom have over 3 years left on their contracts. Not saying they need to go, but those figures severely limit a teams ability to sign free agents and Bowman has depleted their farm system over the years enough that homegrown guys aren't taking us to another championship.</p><p></p><p>I will agree Bowman's done about all he can to alleviate some of this teams money issues. But I dont see how anyone can argue those four guys are worth a third of the teams cap space. Hindsight is 20/20, and I still believe in Bowman, but he's really backed himself into a corner. Any further regressions are really gonna hurt this team.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefIllini, post: 1374714, member: 588522"] Fair enough maybe it was an exaggeration but guys like Toews, Seabs, Anisimov, and recently Keith aren't living up to their contracts (well maybe Keith is playing to his contract, but thats because its relatively cheap), all of which have some sort of NMC attached to them (not even mentioning Crow, but if this injury doesn't derail him I'm fine with his contract). Toews, Seabs, and Anisimov make up around 30% of the cap space. Thats a big chunk of change going to declining players, all of whom have over 3 years left on their contracts. Not saying they need to go, but those figures severely limit a teams ability to sign free agents and Bowman has depleted their farm system over the years enough that homegrown guys aren't taking us to another championship. I will agree Bowman's done about all he can to alleviate some of this teams money issues. But I dont see how anyone can argue those four guys are worth a third of the teams cap space. Hindsight is 20/20, and I still believe in Bowman, but he's really backed himself into a corner. Any further regressions are really gonna hurt this team. [/QUOTE]
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