Quoting: JeffW
You know how screwed you'd be next year with those buyouts right?
12.7 mill in dead cap
Quoting: palhal
It's a common thought on CF. Might be a fair value trade, but no consideration of future cap for one team or the other.
Quoting: Lenny7
I mean, it would be semi-entertaining to watch the Wild try to figure out how to get 8 players signed with somewhere between $4.8-5.8 mil in 22/23. Obviously they'd have to move someone like Dumba, but still, pretty funny.
Quoting: mnwild17
I mean, they would have Boldy and Rossi both on ELCs next year, then Bjugstad probably could come back for under a million. Gologoski is reported to be signing an extension for 1 year 2M Jan 1. But then it gets tight, Dumba or Zuc would probably be traded.
It's almost as if players who're LTIRetired, don't exist. Trading for and acquiring those contracts would more or less gain that lost cap space back by negating the dead cap.
Marian Gaborik, Marian Hossa, and Brent Seabrook are all prime examples of this. Teams have used these contracts to either reach the cap floor or to get past the cap ceiling for the last few years, and the league so far isn't doing anything to stop it. Both Michael Ferland and Shea Weber are prime candidates to be allowed to LTIRetire and contracts I could see Guerin targeting if they are.
Weber's alone would essentially cut the dead cap in half, allowing greater flexibility through the heaviest years of the buyouts.