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Originally Posted by I wanna be like Miikka
Under the previous UFA rules, if you were smart you could get a UFA for a good price by talking to a cap strapped team, you just had to be open and actually look for it. Now, I'm just not going to trade for any UFA that I can't re-sign myself. And if I need cap to sign a UFA, I'm just going to move a RFA of significant value and get my return that way, this won't result in good UFAs going to market, it just stifles the value of them.
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The top end UFAs are probably always going to be re-signed. But I see this playing out a couple different ways
- As you say, you won't trade for any UFA that you can re-sign. This should mean more of them hit the market.
- If you decide to trade a RFA to free up that space, that puts a good RFA on the market which is good.
When I looked at this one of the trends I saw that was creating the asset difference was that lower teams pretty much were in a cycle of paying for aging vets, signing to grids, and then doing the same over and over.
This I think breaks that cycle. Though it remains to be seen.