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Originally Posted by GioforPM
This is a vast overstatement. "Weaponizing cap space" is often talked about and rarely done.
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The returns for taking on bad contracts are significantly lower now, but those trades still happen each year.
For example, San Jose just traded for Ryan Ellis and Carey Price in the offseason.
Chicago for Shea Weber.
Anaheim took a chance on Trouba, and Kreider for peanuts.
You can even attempt to do what Buffalo did with Taylor Hall a few years back, which failed miserably, by signing free agents to high money 1-year contracts in an attempt to flip them.