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Originally Posted by Patrick Bateman
Smid makes about $3M. Assuming a new team would have to remove roughly a 1M player from their roster to acquire Smid, based on cap geek there are literally 6 teams who did not have the space to add Smid.
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http://capgeek.com/payrolls
You're misguided. At the time of the trade and the difference between the players it's reasonable to say taking on Smid would cost roughly 2.5M in additional spending by the end of the year. This is counting what the Oilers had already spent on Smid and the removal of the bottom pairing 7th defenseman from the roster.
Now take a look at those teams and start listing those that could take on an additional 2.5M in spending and stay under the 64.3M cap.
If you're going to Capgeek and purely looking at a team's cap space you're wrong on two accounts. First is that it's been pro-rated now. Being able to take on 3M today is a lot different than taking it on months ago when the season was just starting. More importantly though is the LTIR. Sure Detroit could take on 7M today, but that's because Zetterberg and Weiss are on LTIR which is allowing them to exceed the cap by their "caphit." When those players are removed from the LTIR the Red Wings will have much much much lower than 7M cap space. And then you got bonuses. Again looking at the Red Wings that are already spending 67M due to injuries and with Alfredsson having 2M bonus (along with another couple million with their rookies) they're already looking at having to use their bonus cushion and taking a penalty next year on it.