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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
I don't think the deadline deals will be all that much better than what could transpire now.
With the new cap, deadline day is going to become a yawn fest.
Contenders and want to be contenders will give up more now I think. At deadline there will be fewer teams in the mix.
Also I would prefer to see youth development accelerated by 15-20 games. Create some holes for them to fill and let Hartley work his hard work ethic magic on them.
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What you don't take into account in that analysis is that a lot of the contenders are up against the cap and it is harder for them to take salaries on earlier in the season. That is why a lot of deals get pushed out to the trade deadline. Especially this year with the cap having gone down and not up.
Go take a quick look at the front page of
http://www.capgeek.com/
and you'll see that not many teams have wiggle room at the moment. Vancouver for example only has 1.8 million available now but would have double that available at the deadline. Many teams will have double or triple the cap space available come the deadline.
What's really surprising this year is how many teams won't have any wiggle room at the deadline either. There are 5 teams right now that will have less than 1 million in cap space available at the deadline and thus can't really add anything without subtracting salary.
On the bright side we may be able to take advantage of this year and everyone having cap problems by taking on an expiring salary of a disappointing player. Burke has the opportunity to really work his cap space this deadline and try to charge a premium for teams needing some cap dumps. I'm thinking of the type of deal like a Malakhov to SJ for a 1st rounder. Not that I expect to get a 1st rounder for adding a cap dump but if Burke can work something creative along those lines we could get assets out of nothing. Burke did this to us when he took on Wayne Primeau and we had to give a 2nd rounder in the deal to dump the salary.