better fighters out there also. Further to that, he was limited to enforcing in the regular season, so the logical choice is to get a better regular season enforcer. Hence, rumours of MG targeting Janssen. It's clear to me Glass's time was done here, and for good reason. crazyforhockey 01-03-2012, 12:50 PM Torres has value but they have effectivly looked for players with more consistency.They have more depth/scoring abilty without Tiorres in the bottom six...most of his pts happened in the first 15gms (esp goals)paying on 2nd line....his big hits that crossed the line woke up the other teams (is suspended for 2 gms right now) They had anumber of good hitting replacements... Volpatti,Pinizotto,Bitz who are all injured (better than injuries to our defence- last year) a much better roster than last year esp bottom six......and abilty to have EIGHT DEFENCMAN ON THE ROSTER......that is why we are tight to the cap...cant afford to waive any of the bottom 3 guys or they would be gone. also bitz is still on the cap but i beleive that because he is a new player his contract (while injured isnt on our cap hit--I believe) I leave the actual cap dollars to the experts with final say from Gillman. but last year we had only enough cap space at the deadline to aquire about(around .400 mil salary available--- 2.6-2.7 in salary....lapierre and higgins .9 + 1.6 = 2.5 mil...........ie we had a combined 3.75 + 3.5+3.1 from Bieksa,Salo and Ehrhoff so we