Quoting: BlastnyFromThePastny
My guess is that if no one wants to take them for free then why would they be worth anything. It's the market setting the value for the player. That being said a lot of teams don't claim players because of a lack of cap space. Except that most players getting sent to the minors are usually under the $925,000 max cap hit to go into the minors without affecting the cap.
Exaclty. It's halfway logic, and halfway just groupthink based on misunderstanding what happens on the last day of summer. 18 teams still don't have enough projected cap space to claim Djoos
without losing someone else (
https://www.capfriendly.com/). Six others are apparently rebuilding. That leaves seven teams trying to make the playoffs that had cap space to claim Djoos on the last day of summer.
Tampa and Montreal had each added a UFA defenseman late in the summer and were feeling pretty full. Colorado, NYI, and WInnipeg are pretty set on defense. Anaheim were set on defense before injuries piled up. Nashville is the only team that could afford Djoos, needed him, and passed on him. I'm not sure that should give them much of a discount, if they figure out that he could still help them.
More like what Warrior said:
Quoting: Wqrrior
dont waiverwire players GAIN value after clearing? Because then if he doesn't work this year for NSH they can still send him down without the risk. Still willing to adjust if my reasoning is flawed.
It's not how things worked before the cap, but from a practical standpoint, post-cap, a guy who slipped through the cracks when teams didn't have injury cap space to claim him has suddenly picked up waiver exemption for the year, so teams can build over the cap by adding him. At first when I read that I laughed, because it's so different from how things used to be, but a day later, I figured out it's exactly right.