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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 4, 2019 at 1:43 p.m.
Thread: Team to beat 1920
Dallas doesn't have the Cap Space for something like this. Gonna copy and paste something I posted on that thread:

After Dickinson gets his $2Mish contract, the Stars will have less than $500K in cap space. They won't be able to make a trade like this because once they sign Gusev they go over the cap limit. I know you can go over by 10% during the offseason, but we have to be back under by the time the season starts. This is a list of players the Stars can "Paper Transaction" down to the minors for the first day of the season, and not risk waivers (all 3 should be on the opening night roster):

Roope Hintz - $811,667
Miro Heiskanen - $894,166
Denis Gurianov - $894,166

This gives Dallas $2.6M to move off the books for the opening day of the season.

Assuming Gusev makes $3.5M (low ball for the basis of this argument), that means between him and Dickinson, Dallas spends $5.5M, putting them at $84.53M before the season starts. Even after dropping those three players listed above to the minors for the sake of cap space, the Stars are still $500K over the salary cap, and they can't drop Hanzal down to LTIR until after day 1 of the season. The only way this trade works is if someone already on the NHL roster is going back to Vegas. Otherwise, the Stars won't be under the salary cap by the time the season begins.