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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
If Vegas had no one in LTIR they’d have done the exact same trade the exact same way, no? What would have been different if Vegas had no one injured and acquired Eichel? Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t see why it mattered.
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You have to be cap-compliant with your 23 man roster before you can put a player on LTIR. Even though Eichel is injured, he couldn't be acquired and put directly on LTIR, you would need to have the $10 million in cap room to add him first (minus how ever much cap hit was sent to Buffalo in return for the trade).
Because Vegas could add Pacioretty and Stone to LTIR before the trade, they had over $10 million in space to work with. Also, because they sent Tuch's $4.75 million cap hit the other way, they only needed to make room for $5.25 million to add Eichel.
For the Flames to acquire Eichel, they would have needed to clear about $9 million because they were about $1 million under the cap before Duehr was called up. If Tkachuk or Monahan had gone the other way, they still would have needed to clear $2-3 million to make the Eichel deal.
If Vegas had a fully-healthy roster, they wouldn't have been able to make the deal as they did without moving some cap around, or sending more than just Tuch back to Buffalo.