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Originally Posted by Geeoff
There are very few teams that could lose a player as good as Kucherov and still make the playoffs
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I’ve heard this argument before. But under this new cap-circumvention model you could have other top level talent to fill in for him while he’s gone. Take the leafs for example… a team that makes the playoffs pretty consistently these days but is also in cap trouble every year. Say they go get eichel without having to give up any roster players (just an unrealistic hypothetical of course that would never happen). Someone could say “very few teams could make the playoffs while sitting eichel.” Well the leafs could and then just activate eichel come playoffs. Now they have matthews, Tavares, marner, nylander, and eichel for the playoffs.
Go a step further and add a couple injured players at the trade deadline that will be healthy “just in time for playoffs.”
So in that sense, there are lots of teams that could sit a player like kucherov and make the playoffs. If you circumvent the cap, any of the teams that made the playoffs this year could do it.
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