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Forum: NHL TradesOct. 8, 2023 at 8:32 p.m.
Thread: (TOR/VAN) - Lafferty for 2024 5th (VAN)
Good trade for both teams, but better for Vancouver. He should improve their bottom 6.

For Toronto, I’d call him a cap casualty rather than a cap dump, because “cap dump” implies that he’s overpaid, which he is not, but he is a few hundred thousand over the league minimum, and because they wasted $4M of cap hit on Klingberg instead of the kind of defenseman they really needed, now they need to nickel and dime their way into cap compliance to avoid having to give up a more impactful player. A 5th-round pick isn’t much, but it’s better than nothing, which is what Toronto probably would have got for Lafferty if they tried to waive him. Toronto now has 9 picks in next year’s draft, so maybe they can parlay some of those extra later picks to move their 3rd-round pick into the 2nd round.

The 5th-round pick is a small price for Vancouver to pay to make sure somebody else couldn’t claim him on waivers before they had a chance.
Forum: NHL TradesDec. 1, 2023 at 9:53 a.m.
Thread: (CGY/VAN) - Zadorov for 2024 5th (CHI), 2026 3rd (VAN)
Good moves for Vancouver this week, getting Zadorov and $400,000 cap space for Beauvillier and a 3rd. You have to look at the two trades together because one doesn’t happen without the other.

I’m surprised Calgary didn’t get more for him. I’m not a delusional Flames fan – I know he’s not a star – but with all the teams that seem to need defensive help and could use a big body, I thought he’d be one of the more sought after rentals. Most of those teams couldn’t afford to take him without retention though, so I think Calgary limited the market by wanting to move his whole salary. I guess they felt they needed to clear the cap space for something – maybe there’s more to this than simply selling a pending UFA for whatever you can get. Otherwise, I agree with the people who said they probably would have been better off waiting, especially being not too far out of a wild-card spot now. A sell-off seems premature.