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Originally Posted by Jay Random
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.
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.
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Right... that makes sense.
Makes you wonder why Anaheim included the Kesler contract then, unless there is some actual cash payment owed to Kesler somehow. If it has no value, why throw it in?
Either way though, I agree this is entirely on Vegas. Unless Ottawa knowingly and intentionally misled Vegas when the made the trade last summer, in which case Vegas should have turned this up then, not now at the trade deadline. You'd think that is one of the first things they would have asked the agent and/or the player - "tell us about this 10 team no trade list... who's on it? Still valid?" etc. The fact they don't know what the contract they are paying contains is their own idiocy.