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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
It’s just because all the other trades were amazing and this one was just good enough.
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I thought at the time, and still think, it was a very neat bit of work by Conroy.
Chicago got free cap space from Santa Claus by getting to ditch the Perry contract. Vancouver grabbed the cap space by sending Beauvillier to Chicago. The Canucks needed a defenceman because of injuries, so Conroy pounced.
If Zadorov had been traded to any other team, it probably would have involved retention. Instead, most of the cap space from the Perry contract wound up in Craig Conroy's hip pocket. All it cost him was a pending UFA who was going to be a real headache to re-sign anyway.