No More Trades, But So Many Farewells

We love you, Lars Eller (Caps Outsider)For the Caps, it was strange not to approach the trade deadline by ‘bolstering’ the blueline with a journeyman defender, picking up an aging star or a renting a proven winner.

This season, the stars aligned… Or, perhaps the end of several contracts aligned with a not-good-enough record. Needless to say, the Caps had every reason to trade away every expiring contract, and even some with a year or so left (though Anthony Mantha remains on the team).

The trade deadline is done, and farewell to Dmitry Orlov, Garnet Hathaway, Erik Gustafsson, Lars Eller, and Marcus Johansson.

This list should actually should have been longer, as there was no compelling reason…