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Originally Posted by old-fart
Vegas can trade a first and 2 seconds to Anaheim for Kesler's contract.
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Kesler's contract has no value at all. The cap relief in this bungled trade was not from adding Kesler, it was from subtracting Dadonov.
It's quite obvious that the Golden Knights have made a colossal mess of this. If anybody still wants to maintain that they are masterminds plotting a foolproof way to circumvent the cap with the league's connivance, I shall now feel free to point and laugh.
Remember Hanlon's Razor: ‘Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.’ Vegas got greedy and stupid and it is now biting them on the arse.
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Originally Posted by D as in David
And they would still be able to trade something to Anaheim to get the LTIR contract or any other LTIR contract from any team that has one. Unless there's something in the rules against that.
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Again, LTIR contracts have no value. If you add a $7-million player on LTIR, he counts $7 million against your cap, but your cap is temporarily raised by $7 million to acquire a replacement player. The two numbers cancel out.