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Originally Posted by gvitaly
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.
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Anaheim was more capitalizing to improve their roster… which they did… I don’t see a team trading for a player that they need as “weaponizing cap space”. But I also think the term is stupid anyway.