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Originally Posted by dino7c
It obviously is...if some team, especially in the east thought they could improve their team they would have paid a pick or even a minor league player.
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Why pay them when you can make them pay you?
From most teams' point of view, Dadonov's contract isn't bad, but they are already saddled with bad contracts of their own.
I remind you for the 10,947th time, since the other 10,946 fell on deaf ears:
More than half the teams in the NHL were over the salary cap this past season and needed LTIR to be compliant.
In relative terms, Dadonov's contract is not bad; scores are worse. In absolute terms, the only teams with the cap space to take it on have internal budgets and can't afford it. That cuts out most of the potential buyers and makes a perfect buyer's market for whoever is left.
Montreal is one of the three richest clubs in the league, and could easily afford to pay Dadonov if not for the cap. In a perfect buyer's market, they could dictate their terms, and their terms required Vegas to take back an even bigger amount of dead cap. The Habs could have found a way to put Dadonov on the payroll and keep Weber on LTIR, but it was cheaper and more effective for them to make Vegas take on the headache as the price of doing business.