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Originally Posted by MarkGio
Look at it from a supply & demand stand point. A team has to convince their ownership to pay 11 million dollars (what Carle is owed for the next two season) to acquire Drouin. A lot of teams are budgeted and cheap out on UFAs and bridge contracts, let alone capable of spending 11 million just to sweeten a deal.
So at least half of the teams are out from a financial stand point. The teams can afford 11 million for ####s and giggles are the cap stricken teams, so a 5.5 million cap hit for two years is crippling. So that basically leaves Yzerman with whatever teams are left that have money and cap space. I can think of one team only.
Yzerman is screwed.
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TOR? They seem like a team that is happy to trade cap space for picks/prospects.
It's something we would've done a year or two ago but I'm not sure we have the excess cap space to eat many bad contracts anymore unless we manage to dump some of our own bad contracts first.