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Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 16 at 12:27 p.m.
Thread: PlayoffPush
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hockeyfan1234</b></div><div>But Smith isn’t a cap dump. He’s on pace for 40 points in a down year lol. And it’s rumored that he wants to go back to Vegas and Vegas would be interested in a return. So why wouldn’t we just work out a deal with them and not pay to dump Smith. And even if we don’t trade smith, we have just over 17 million in cap space with 16 players signed. The only big contract would be to either sign Jake or replace him. The other 5-6 players would just be 4th liners and depth pieces that will all be cheap. So if you think about it, the only reason the pens would or should pay would be because they were absolutely desperate. For example if they only had like 1 million in cap space next year. Otherwise it’s not gonna happen.</div></div>

Those are all valid points but it doesn’t change the fact that Chicago as a rebuilding team will only take Smith if it is a benefit to them, taking on Smith’s $5m for next season does not benefit the Hawks unless they get paid to do so or in the worst case scenario they need to take on another contract to reach the cap floor. As mentioned in my previous post, that would be a Taylor Hall scenario and Pittsburgh gets a minor leaguer or nothing in return.

As for why Pittsburgh wouldn’t just deal with Vegas instead of Chicago, you will have to ask the creator of this thread.
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