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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
If Vegas selects Kulak the Flames missed a big opportunity to move Brouwers contract.
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That's true if you're operating on the assumption that the Flames could convince Vegas to take Brouwer in the draft in return for also receiving Kulak and another asset (likely a 1st or 2nd round pick). Vegas has clearly made a lot of deals to take some cap dumps so your deal has to be as good or better than a bunch of other deals out there. Vegas can only take on so much of the league's unwanted cap hits.
You're also assuming that, just because Vegas takes Kulak today, there's no deal in place to move Brouwer in the coming weeks. Vegas could take on a cap hit of $5.5M then flip it to Calgary for Brouwer at $4.5M in order to gain the assets from the original cap dump and then pass along the extra $1M to Calgary. That's probably the most likely scenario in which Brouwer is moved when you look at all the rumoured cap dumps already going to Vegas.