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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I hate that a team has to operate like this. I get they are paying $3 million in real money to buy $15 million cap space but why not use that $5 million to try and get a player in free agency to make your team better on the ice. I also hate that big market US teams continue to get convenient circumstances to get out of cap issues.
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I totally get this. From the point of view of the people making the deals it's completely legitimate and within the rules, even though it comes across as unfair and circumventing.
However, Arizona has been at this now for a second time. I can't think the NHL would want these teams unloading their bad contracts on the junkyard teams of the league.
Could it be considered tanking, as opposed to using the money to bolster the team to win.
Also, we are always like this team is hooped when they have to sign this or that. A lot of these big market teams have been able to unload these contracts. I'm really grateful Edmonton wasn't able to unload Lucic on Arizona.