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Originally Posted by mosdef
The impact of the front-loading is being overrated. If you owe someone $26 million next year and you don't want to pay it all at once, you borrow the amount and pay it back in installments. The impact isn't that they'll go bankrupt next year if they match the offer, the impact is that the actual cost exceeds the dollar amount because of interest.
Not if your intent is to keep him for one year and then trade. Then you end up paying $26mil for one year of Weber and whatever extra value you get in a trade. The contract was probably structured this way specifically to keep the Preds from matching the contract with the intent of trading him.
The Preds make money due to a sweetheart stadium deal, but they are still a very low revenue team. I just don't see how they can afford to match & trade or to match & keep. They'd probably be a better team with the money to build a team + draft picks than they'd be with Weber + Rinne + a bunch of low paid scrubs.