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Old 03-19-2015, 12:46 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina View Post
Doug raised valid points during the discussion that teams with pending UFAs would flip them - and then lower teams would give up assets to get them AND then also use too much cap to grid them. So this is one of the biggest factors in the asset difference across the league.

At the age of 34 guys like Beauchimen should not have value apart from being a rental. No one should sensibly be gridding him let alone giving up assets for the right to grid him. Those are exactly the players that should be hitting the free agent pool.
I am not going to be gridding him, but essentially it has killed any value he has as a rental as team could have perhaps thought they could move him in the off-season.

This may also cause borderline playoff teams to dump off Ufa's now instead of making a last ditch effort to go for the Championship.

Curious to see how this plays out.
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