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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
I think Kane stays in Chicago until the deadline to better survey the landscape of which team to accept a move to for a playoff run. Chicago also probably gets more then when GMs get crazy than now.
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Of course. Their premise requires a scenario where they are the only dance partner. And they had that last year with Keith and they still lost that trade. Why wouldn't Chicago wait until they are near the deadline and teams have accrued cap space, or at least have some players on LTIR. Since according to Oilers fans, Kane would make them champs, it means they are offering the least valuable pick available.
Chicago's best option is to send their stars to teams in the bubble that might not even make the playoffs. And then sell some of their excess cap to take bad contracts back for picks. Likewise for Arizona, being more than willing to take a bunch of retained or bad contracts at the deadline for picks in a super deep draft. There have been several examples of how expensive cap dumps are this year already.