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Originally Posted by Northendzone
i get that you plan ahead, but it is only october - hard to think a lot about trade deadline moves already.
i'd suspect that several teams will be interested in big daddy kane come trade deadline day and chicago should get several offers
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Not the greatest time to be a seller with a high-priced player though. Currently 13 teams are utilizing LTIR. They aren't accruing cap-space, and teams where that is expected to be the case all-season (like Vegas) will be nearly impossible to make a trade for a player like Kane.
Vegas would need to move over 10M worth of cap-hit to play Kane, not really going to get that done without moving Pietrangelo, Eichel or Stone, which is robbing Peter to pay Paul.
If Buffalo, Ottawa, Winnipeg are in the playoff hunt and looking like contenders they have the space to add him without needing to remove salary. But if they fall out of contention, there's relatively few teams that can afford him at his full cap-hit by only removing a middle player or two at the deadline (Calgary could move someone in that 4-5M range and find the cap space come trade deadline so Toffoli, Hanifin, Anderson, level contract, same with Nashville, Minnesota could include someone in that 3M range, New York Rangers could move someone like Trochek for him)
But then other potential contenders need to move multiple impact players to make room. Dallas would need to move someone like Marchment and Lindell for example to get the 10.5M cap space, under the pretty fair assumption that the Hawks aren't looking at Benn or Seguin. Keeping half his salary helps but it still doesn't really open a lot of these LTIR cheating teams.
Big blockbuster many player involved trades, new LTIR utilizations (i.e. someone else goes down for the rest of the regular season) or "cap-space" trades could obviously result in Kane going anywhere but in terms of teams that can quickly do that standard player(s)/prospects/picks for rental trade, there's only a handful right now and still not a huge list by the deadline.
I think that's why Calgary is being named. Not because there's any fire (heyoo!) but because they are one of the few teams expected to be playoff contenders with actual cap-space. Plus they are a Canadian team that will draw clicks.