Can Tampa be bamboozled right now

Équipe: 2020-21 Sénateurs d'Ottawa

Date de création initiale: 23 déc. 2020

Publié: 23 déc. 2020

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Not sure if anyone knows, but could some team (not necessarily Ottawa, just using for cap purposes) offer sheet Tampa right now, and force their hand to make a trade? Consider this scenario:

Tampa currently sits at a cap hit of $87,654,166 (let's call it $87.65 million for easy math). The max overage ceiling is 10% over the cap ceiling of $81.5 million, making the absolute max ceiling $89.65 million. Can a team force Tampa to make a trade similar to how Vegas had to trade to clear cap for Pietrangelo? If a team such as Ottawa were to make an offer sheet of anywhere over $2 million, they would be over the max ceiling of $89.65 million. Then Tampa has exactly a week to match the offer sheet, or let Cirelli walk. In that time, a team (Ottawa) could also offer Tampa a trade to take on the cap of a player (Johnson, Killorn, etc.) for cheap if not for free.

Someone who understands the business end of hockey better than I do can tell me if this makes any sense or is totally idiotic.