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Originally Posted by CSharp
I'll be surprised to see it changed and here is the reason why. You really haven't seen any of the Canadian teams do it. It's been mainly teams from the US that are doing this because it's a money maker for these teams and it brings out huge news and drives up a frenzy in places where the NHL wants to make inroads to the sports market. Canadian teams don't need to do it because fans are gonna be there for their team no matter what. It's all about money and it goes round and round. Just wait until the Oilers do it and the league will make a ruling out of it and the ownerships in those not-so-NHL areas will threaten to pull out and sell their teams.
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That isn't the reason why you have not seen Canadian teams do it. For the Canadian teams and many other teams it makes no financial sense to spend $15M+ dollars on their roster at the deadline, only a handful of really wealthy teams can do that because they have so much capital they don't care. It is like teams in MLB like the Yankees, they don't care how much luxury tax they pay and so it is broken.