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Originally Posted by moon
I doubt much of that happens but i guess we can see.
With the compliance buyouts I can't see teams willing to give up much more than 4th and 5th round picks to shed bad deals.
Why give up a high pick when you can just buy a guy out and not hurt your team.
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I was commenting that i don't think signing Free Agents fits the title of exploiting teams in cap trouble.
We should be wildly speculating about the possiblities that are out there. Most of them wont work. But if there is a year a team in the Flames position could pull one of these off, it is this year.
Offer Sheets, A team like St Louis has 4 high profile RFA, and is going to have a vary hard time dealing with all of them at once.
RFA trades, maybe given the reduced salary cap an past tensions a guy like Kadri is unsignable by the leafs. So could we aquire him for way less than he is worth (like a 2014 1st rounder).
Teams might do a player for player trade like Bolland for Stempniak straight up, I think we win the hockey trade, they save over $1M and probably don't think their team is much worse for ware.
Trade for a guy like Vanek for way less than market value, Over $7M / with only one year left. And then hope we can resign him to a resonable contract.
The opportunities exist this year.