Who adds what?
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The Caps and Flyers each have 15 standings points. They play in the same division. They're tied, just outside of playoff position. Washington is not handing off two healthy wings for an injured wing and an injured goalie, as cool as it would be to bring back Neuvirth. They also have less than zero cap space. If Orpik gets healthy before someone else gets injured, they end up .5M over, and have to send someone else to Hershey, where Walker is (so this trade raises their cap to about 3M over, when/if Raffl and Neuvirth get off LTIR.