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Originally Posted by GhostCookie
I don't see how that solves their cap issues. They have space right now due to LTIR, but Pacioretty is supposed to be back late November, Tuch in Feb, Stone is apparently close, and Whitecloud is week to week. With those players back in the lineup, they would need to send down or waive around 4.5 million to be cap compliant. They would definitely not be able to fit Eichel's salary if he was cleared prior to the playoffs.
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I think what they could do is make the trade then move Eichel to LTIR. I wouldn’t be surprised if we had a Kucherov situation if that went down but I could see Vegas making that deal and figuring out the cap piece later.
For instance I believe the Flames would have to take Eichel’s full $10M cap hit but once the deal was done they could move Eichel into LTIR then free up that cap space.