CarltonTheBear said:$2mil? eehhhhhh. Maybe call it $1mil for Weiss, 1st rounder and a prospect. That would be the absolute minimum package I would accept. If we're eating money AND taking a contract back Phaneuf should have pretty good value. I would probably prefer to just not retain anything and take a smaller package in return.
I'd give him away for nothing because I think you can get or develop a comparable talent for $4-5 mil/yr over the life of his deal.
Weber, Suter, Chara, Pietrangelo & Karlsson are at in the $6.5 - $7.x vicinity of contract/year.
Think anyone would be fussing over taking money back for them if they were on the block? Nope. The GMS would be tossing 1st rounders like drunks and snatching them up with little debate.
So that's the problem. He's being paid like a top dman but he isn't and at his age, he won't be.