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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Vegas tried acquiring the contract of a player who is retired on LTIR. They either did it to avoid having to deal with cap issues by taking advantage of the LTIR system, or because they just like paying salaries. It's impossible to know for sure.
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Or maybe it was because ANA didn't want to pay Dadonov's full $6.5M salary next year? Depending on the nature/existence of any insurance on the Kesler contract, his salary the rest of this season might have cost $1.35M...pretty close to the backloaded amount of ED's deal.