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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Does that ever actually happen, a team taking on a bad contract in order to get another asset alongside it (high draft pick). I always hear talk about it, yet I've never actually seen it happen. Sutter trading Primeau a while ago is the only one I can think of, yet that was for a 4th liner. Just once I'd like to see a big name player with a bad contract move along with a high draft pick, like the media always claims is going to happen.
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I'd say that the Regehr trade to Buffalo was an example. We included a 2nd rounder so that they'd take the Kotalik contract. It is just a guess though.