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Originally Posted by transplant99
Expansion is before the regular draft no?
Teams will know who they lost when they get to the regular draft and will have lost that salary on top of it all...creating more cap room league wide.
It will also be before the 5 team NTC kicks in.
Every team will be better positioned then than now...but if someone wants to blow their socks off as to get 2 playoff runs with him...then sure. His value will be higher in the summer though for the simple supply and demand concept. More teams, more demand.
So few teams can afford him this TD that you are really limiting your options. Again though...if the right one comes along...do it.
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A few challenges:
- teams are slightly more rational in the off-season (Jul. 1 excluded)
- hard deadline of the NTC puts Brad up against the wall. I'd see a lot of teams throwing out a weak offer and not budging
- Hall and RNH possibly available as UFA along with several others
I think we see a lot of draft deals for cost-controlled players, but there isn't much evidence for limited term guys moving:
'17-18 is the most relevant year (VGK ED):
- Eberle w/ 2 years left for Strome (LOL)
- Panarin (2 yrs) for Saad (4)
'18-'19:
Hoffman (2) for Boedker
Skinner, Pacioretty, and Karlsson trades happened in Aug and Sep
'19-20
Barrie/Brodie only had 1 year terms for Kadri...(actual trade happened July 1)
The next best I could find was 2015 where 1 year of Lucic (15 team trade list; 46% retained) returned: pick #13OA in 2015
23 yo Colin Miller (5th rd pick who had yet to play an NHL game, though he lit up the AHL the previous season and played 42 games for BOS the next year)
Martin Jones (RFA rights - BOS flipped him a few days later for a 2016 1st (#29 - Trent Frederic) and Sean Kuraly (full time player for 4 years now)
Be careful what we wish for in Lombardi? Lucic actually potted 23G and 50P, but the Kings were out in 5 and haven't won a playoff game since.
34 yo Bieksa also waived his NTC to go for a 2016 2nd to ANA that year (that 2nd ended up being future HOFer Filip Gustavsson)
There isn't much recent evidence that draft time is a good opportunity to trade a single year to UFA player.