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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I think with the quality of players available in the first couple of rounds of this draft that teams are more preoccupied with drafting over trades.
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It’s not just the draft. Teams are capped. Most can’t bring in any substantial salary without sending salary back, either in the deal or in a side deal. It makes trades extremely difficult to arrange.
When you’re looking at players like Hanifin and Lindholm who will be getting big extensions, it makes it even harder to fit them into a cap structure. The Kings had to make two trades before the Dubois deal (which itself sent $4 mil in salary out) to fit him in to their structure longterm.