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Originally Posted by mikephoen
Agreed. If push came to shove and Conroy had to get to the cap floor, he could just pay Iggy or Jagr 10M for a year to play on the 4th line and teach kids how to be a pro. It would be a lot more fun!
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The point I'm making isn't that they have a problem hitting the floor. Its that they won't LTIR Huberdeau in order to sign some random guy for $10m. They will just keep his contract on the cap.
This is why all those long retired guys traded. Carey Price counts $10m against San Jose's cap this year. Chicago has $14m in cap hits right now from Shea Weber and Ryan Ellis.
It allows you during the season to trade higher paid veterans without going below the floor and having to take on terrible contracts to offload and stay over the floor.