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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I think that's the point of adding Samuelsson. He has negative value so you'd have to give up less to get the player who you actually want. Weaponize cap space to get assets.
Having said that, I wouldn't do it to get Byram back. He's not that impressive to me and this team does have many young defensemen coming up. I would do it if Peterka was the return though. We need offense more than anything.
If we let go of Hanley and Miromanov, that still opens up 2 spots for rookie defensemen. I doubt they plan to go into the season with more than that.
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That is definitely not how I understood the post I was replying to.
If Samuelsson is the cap dump and the Flames get a better asset in the deal, then that would be great. I would export Bean and/or Miromanov and have Samuelsson in the pressbox if it gets us #9OA (or Byram or Peterka). If Samuelsson doesn't turn things around in a couple of years then his contract looks very buy-out friendly.
I would then try to use #9OA to try to trade up to #2OA. I think San Jose would be really happy to take #9OA and use it to pick Mrtka to fill their RD prospect gap.