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Originally Posted by GioforPM
It potentially makes Lucic more attractive if they move on, in a trade to a team that needs to make the floor but is also cheap.
ETA: That said, people always talk about teams trading to make the floor but I don't know if I've ever seen a team struggle to do make the floor.
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Look no further than what the Sens are doing this year. They have actively pursued players with higher caphit's than actual money owed due to bonuses. They have also had to overpay a marginal player in Hainsey, put 9.5M on the IR (between Gaborik and McCarthur), and have a 3M dollar third string goalie to reach the cap floor.
Anisimov - 4.55 Caphit for two more years (only 5M owed)
Boedker - 4M Caphit (3M owed)
Brown - 2.1M Caphit (1.6 owed)
Zaitsev - 4.5M Caphit (only 1.5M owed this season - since they got Toronto to pay the bonus prior to the trade)
Real dollars payed out this season is only 47.1M while the cap floor is 60.24M