If they trade Cammalleri, and assuming Kipper retires, their cap payroll would be at about $34.3M, with 5 or 6 guys to re-sign / add (bit all of them would be pretty cheap)
If they were to keep him until the deadline, it would cost them about $4.5M of his $7M salary (and slightly less for the cap).
Why not eat half his salary and trade him now? It would cost about the same, and if I were a contender, I would rather have him the whole year instead of trying to insert him at the deadline.
Also, I would rather eat salary than take on another bad contract as it's cleaner. However, if a bad contract meant a better return, then it is worth considering.
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