Rejoint: juill. 2021
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I like this trade for all three teams. Vegas gets the cap dump they’ll need to make room for Eichel with the least possible amount of damage, Toronto gets a local-boy winger for their top six and they don’t care if it’s only for this season, and Seattle gets some needed forward help and a draft pick upgrade. Dermott and Fleury seem close to equal so I guess they were thrown in just so Seattle could retain salary to make the deal work for Toronto, but they could have also done that by retaining part of Smith’s salary.
The salary retention works for Toronto but not for Seattle. It looks like this deal would put them over the cap even without the salary retention, so why would they solve a problem for Toronto while compounding one of their own? Maybe LTIR is an option – they have some guys on the IR now and I don’t know how long they’re out for – but I’m not sure Dadonov and Kerfoot are enough of an upgrade over whomever they would displace for them to want to give up their cap flexibility. This is where I think the trade might break down. Also the time isn’t right for Vegas. I think they’re going to wait until they know Eichel’s surgery is successful before they dump anybody, otherwise they probably could have sent Dadonov and Smith to Buffalo as part of the package for Eichel.