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Originally Posted by The Cobra
The main result of the requirement of teams needing to be cap compliant come playoff time is less deadline deals.
What's the use of bringing in a top player for the playoffs if you need to sit some players due to cap restrictions.
And who will suffer from that?
The bottom feeder teams trying to dump UFA's to be for draft picks.
Oh I expect the Andersson's can be easily moved because they are good, but the more marginal players probably cannot be moved.
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Or teams make different moves. For example, the Marchand trade. Boston got a 2nd and did not RS. Maybe Florida under the current rules still does a trade but the trade is Marchand 50% RS for Luostarinen and a 2nd. Trade might need to happen earlier in the year and Florida might have to do another deal like this to get under, but they might have to make 2 trades adding players with RS and give up players they don't want to and picks.
Also, the off season we finally might see players signing with different teams other than Vegas as Vegas is going to run out of options to add and add.