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Originally Posted by Boreal
Right.
Did the Oilers get cap relief in the deal or not?
Could Yzerman have secured Kostin for nothing or not?
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Not.
Anyone could have signed Kostin and, as a free agent, he would have had more leverage for a bigger contract.
They paid to have exclusive negotiating rights and leverage within those negotiations with the player. You can bet that if the negotiations weren’t going how they wanted they would have just qualified him to ensure they still got the player.