By Giles Ferrell -
With the very thin free agent market for defenseman, it makes a lot of sense for Fletcher to try and shop Gilbert. Unluckily for Fletcher, Gilbert is coming off a horrible year and has a cap hit of $4 million next year. One would figure the Wild would try and give him away for next to nothing, but the decreasing cap in 2013-14 may have killed any possibly deal for him (who wants to take on a $4M cap hit for a struggling defenseman?). A buyout seems more possible for Gilbert, just to clear his $4M off the cap.
What does Chuck Fletcher end up doing in the next week? Who knows at this point. The amount of big decisions he has to make in the next week is rather ridiculous. It's not easy being in his shoes right now.
Lets all hope he makes the right decisions...
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