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Many experts expect the Columbus Blue Jackets to blow up their roster and start overall. After all, this team sits in dead last in the NHL with a high payroll.What?s to like about this team?But general manager Scott Howson is keeping the rest of the league guessing. His decision to extend Vinny Prospal?s contract caused considerable head scratching, since only four players older than Prospal have contracts beyond this season.As an unnamed scout recently told the Columbus Dispatch: ?So, you?ve got the 30th-place team in the league extending the contract of a 37-year-old player, giving him a no-trade clause, and at the same time scratching a 19-year-old rookie (Ryan Johansen) who was just at the All-Star Game.?Yep, that?s right. Given that peculiar move, nobody can really guess what will happen to center Jeff Carter. This obvious trade candidate carries a decade-long cap hit of $5.27 million per year.
Not surprisingly, Howson has generated little interest for Carter among his peers. C...
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