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Originally Posted by blankall
IMO this will end up more limiting to our competitors. If the Flames are selling top 4 d-man and have cap space to take a cap dump back, they have an advantage over sellers who can't take a cap dump back.
If someone wants Andersson, for more than a rental, they will need to have the cap space to sign him next season anyways. For this season, they'll need to unload some cap. The Flames can take that cap. Will probably cost extra though.
Cap, in general, is likely to have a lot of value this season, as several teams had likely already factored in LTIR into their playoff drive (Vegas I'm looking at you) and will now need to unload cap.
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I honestly have a hard time picking a would be seller as a team that can't take a cap dump back.
Moreover, if we're talking about trading Andersson with 50% retention at the TD then all but 6 teams can take on that contract, without sending any salary back. Out of those 6 teams 2 are MTL(Price LTIR), and PHI. That leaves a total of 4 capped out contenders: VGK, FLA, EDM, DAL.
As things stand 24 teams will have more than $5M of cap space at the trade deadline. Many of whom would love to get assets for a cap dump.
Finally, my understanding is that the playoff cap would apply to the players a team gets to ice on a per game basis. In that case a team would be replacing a 3rd pairing D likely making $1M-1.5M with a $2.2M Andersson, so I don't see it being too much of an issue compared to Kucherov($9.5M) or Stone($9.5M) returning for the playoffs.