Waiver Claims

no this is wrong

Let’s go to the shopping mall of castoffs for new players. Oh wait, where are we going to put them?
I guess just waive a bunch of our own.

and lower teams will put in claims

I never mentioned waiving any of the players on Columbus, just switch out throughout the season and if it doesn't work out with the players acquired you could still send them down, waive them, or trade them. Not only that but you still have quite a bit of cap space. Ho-Sang has a lot of potential, DeSmith doesn't fix the problem in net but will help out Korpisalo and help prevent the team from being as terrible as it is going to be. Baertschi is a solid bottom six forward, Agostino has the ability to improve even though he is 27 as shown by last season, Hickey isn't bad, would switch out with Harrington and as mentioned before there is still the possibility of trading him. As for the forwards, each one claimed off of waivers performed better than Nash last season except for Ho-Sang who didn't play as many games, but I guarantee you if he did he still would have done better than Nash, hopefully answering any complaints about Nash being a healthy scratch.

So, when you want to claim someone a team offers for waivers, luckily, you're not required to claim everybody they're offering. Ho-Sang and Hickey each fell apart on offense last year. Neither has any value. But Hickey costs ten times as much, so that's not the interesting side of the gamble.