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Originally Posted by gvitaly
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 then all but 6 teams can take acquire anyone 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.
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I haven't read the deal, just going by what people are saying here, and this was my impression as well - if wrong, con someone please jump in.
But if that is the case, then I don't think it dampens trade deadline deals as mush as some are suggesting. All a team requires is that they acquire someone that they would rather dress, over someone else on the roster. So instead of having to trade away that $4M benchwarmer, they would simply leave them off the playoff roster. And they would still have that player available in case of other injuries, so it is actually a net benefit.