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Originally Posted by jayswin
Well, basically any deal for Lindholm or Hanifin will see us taking something close to equal cap space back, that's just how NHL trades have to work now a days, it wouldn't be unique to a Minnesota deal.
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Not necessarily. LWOS just put out an article that alleges that two teams with plenty of cap space- Buffalo and Nashville-are in the Hanifin sweepstakes. Detroit and Columbus are another 2 teams that have been in rumours, and also have cap space. An established roster player could come back in trade, but not necessarily somebody with an equal cap hit. Wasn't there speculation that the return from CBJ would be something around Sillinger/Chibrikov/pick?
Plus, there have been plenty of trades in the last few months that didn't have nearly the same money coming in as going out- it just depends on the situation. In Minnesota's case, I can't see them wanting to trade us the contract of anybody good, it would be more of a salary dump situation- that was more the point I was making. They aren't trading us Boldy or Eriksson-Ek.