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Burgeoboy wrote on Mon, 01 July 2019 11:29

ziltoid wrote on Mon, 01 July 2019 14:50

Burgeoboy wrote on Mon, 01 July 2019 09:10

Goes to Dallas for 1 year at 1.5 m . So if we retained 4 m this year and 5.5 next year , we could have traded him to Dallas for a 7th rounder maybe ? Huge mistake by Holland fire him !!!

I believe the most you can retain is 50%, so why take a guy at 2.75MM when you can get him for cheaper afters he's bought out... plus you save an asset.



Exactly, but yet some people here thought Holland made a mistake by not trading him and retaining salary, which clearly teams weren’t willing to do. I know you can only retain is 50%, my point was even if we could retain more, teams wouldn't have be lining up , the market for Sekera just isn’t there, as his signing shows. No one would give him more the 1.5/2 mill For one year, so how was Holland suppose to make that trade happen at 2.75 for 2 years.


Think the comment from most is that we hoped Holland at least tried to move him with 50% retained. Chia would buy guys out on a whim, or because he would have felt bad demoting them to save 100% of their cap hit (like Gryba who signed somewhere else and was immediately demoted anyways). Chia bought out Pouliot and then sat on 6M of unused cap space for an entire season.

Based on what Sek signed for, I think it's safe to assume he has some health issues that the OIlers would have had to disclose as part of trying to trade him, making it impossible. He is not expected to be anything like the player we all hoped he would be again. So I guess that is that, we had to dump him, and Dallas is taking a 500k risk to have him on as a depth guy and if they are lucky he has a miraculous turnaround.



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