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Originally Posted by Patrick Bateman
Firstly, per capgeek, there are 23 teams with cap space above $3.5M. They could all technically have added Smid to their roster without removing any salary.
Secondly, most teams have a young player that eligible for waiver protocal that is not essential to their team that could be sent down. You could literally choose any team to find such a player ranging from 700k to a million. Teams manage to send down players and call them up on a daily basis.
I'm not changing any arguments here. Teams move non essential pieces up and down to the farm all the time.
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Well the cap picture you are seeing today is not the same as it was during the Smid trade.
For example, the Red Wings are shown to have 7.5mil in cap space thanks to LTIR today.
Who is on LTIR? Zetterberg and Weiss
When did they get injured? Zetterberg injured on Dec 3 and Weiss Dec 11.
Smid was traded on Nov 8. The Red Wings didn't have the space they do now.