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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Interesting to look back during the summer. I traded Doughty to Dave for the 8th overall pick. The big difference was that I needed to move him and free up cap space. Mere months later he has been flipped, with a 2nd for a nearly PPG player and a good young dman.
Underscores that a really good strategy for building your asset base is to make sure you have cap space in the summer to leverage to acquire players at their lowest values and then flip them during the year for a better return. This is a shining example of that.
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You seem to be ignoring other factors though. You're not taking into account the raises both Ellis and Reinhart will be getting in the offseason as well. A lot of cap management is done in the season just as well as teams shed cap in the offeason.
And while it is an asset to have cap in the offseason to leverage to acquire players you also have to have that 8th overall in this case
Teams are a lot tighter when both teams are trying to win and not one team taking advantage of the other throwing in the towel. Hockey deals still do need to happen IMO