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Originally Posted by Meers
A GM gauges interest by talking to other GMs. That's been done here, and there's no interest. Hence the waiver.
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Well it's not really that simple. It seems to me that there was interest, by more than one team, but that Richards has negative trade value. Lombardi would prefer have someone pick him up on waivers than to pay a price to get rid of him. If he clears waivers then Lombardi has to decide if he wants to pay the trade price or send Richards to the AHL and absorb the cap hit. It's highly likely that they won't want to eat the cap long term and will therefore need to pay the price to make a trade.