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Originally Posted by MarkGio

If the Flames sold Jonas Hiller at the deadline, the buying team has to take in 1.3 million in cap space. There are some teams who cant even afford it, that's how little cap space they carry. Guys like Purcell, Jones, Grabner, Borque, Legwand, etc. are not affordable since teams would rather eat up their last bit of space on a productive guy like Vbrata, Staal, Hudler, Hamhuis, Ladd, etc.

Plus every playoff team needs space for call ups. The cap crunch limits even expiring UFAs.

I think GM's could easily work deals around that if the desire is there for a trade.