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Originally Posted by Monahammer
This confusing bit comes up over and over, but why does anyone at all believe Kylington has any trade value? It is pretty evident that he has 0 value... not even worth taking off waivers for another club at this point.
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Because he is an NHL ready defenseman where you have no development costs to incur. The waiver argument is a bad one, because waivers are a contemporaneous decision point which requires that you take on the contract and guarantee the player a roster spot, meaning you have to clear a roster spot of your own using the waivers mechanism. Clearing waivers does not mean there is no interest in a player, that just at that moment the teams do not have the flexibility to take on the player on from the waiver wire. Moving a player in a situation like Kylington during the summer is much easier as the teams have much more flexibility, especially if they have to move a player with a larger contract to take on a younger, cheaper player.