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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
What he's saying is yes their hands is kind of forced (though they can get under the cap without trades), the demand would be high, and thus the price would go up. Sure its a salary dump, but they cant be held over a barrel if there's a bidding war. Edmonton, Vancouver and a myriad of other teams would try to jump in that trade. You aren't getting either for a low price
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Like I also said, if they cannot work out a cap dump deal with the Hawks, then the Flames wait until the 15th and sign Hayes anyways. The point I was making was there is an opportunity here to help CHI at he same time. I don't really care about what the other teams would do, because they aren't getting Hayes. The report said Hayes will most likely sign in CGY because, the Gaudreau effect.
But make no bones about it. Those of you who think the Hawks will get anything substantial in return for whatever cap dump they make, are severely over estimating things.
I just got jumped on saying the Flames should drop their asking price in said cap dump trade discussions because teams don't want to add firsts to a cap dump trade in another thread, then this comes up and all of a sudden the Flames can't offer enough? Backwards thinking by responding posters. And maybe because its a scenario that folks cannot wrap their head around because the Flames come out on top. I don't know, figure it out.
Chicago needs to dump almost 3 million n cap. more if they need to sign some people. They put themselves in that situation and the Flames, offering up a moderate package for the rights to a player they know they can sign for nothing along with a cap hit player, is exactly the kind of scenario folks have been clamouring for since this whole cap dump shenanigans began.