Really? As long Klefbom stays on LTIR, he really doesn't affect Oilers cap at all.
Muzzin's NTC, and Johnson's M NTC ensure they aren't traded to Buffalo or any team with cap

So Buff takes on Bishop from Dallas for a 7th round pick with a 4.9 mill cap hit, but for the oilers to dump Klefbom's contract at 4.1 mil it cost a third??

Why do you complain about asset management on all of my ACGMs and then do this ROFL

I see questions like this a lot. The Sabres owners may be crazy rich, but the Sabres have been losing money. The owners are at least partially to blame for attendance, as they have been behind hiring some nit wits who have made God awful decisions. Anyway, they are sick of losing money and seem to have decided that we will be a floor team until we start winning and attendance improves. Bishop was a targeted contract- short term with a cap hit higher than the money due, which essentially lets them be under the floor. So, once we officially hit the floor, why would we be taking one red cent to help another team? I mean we wouldn't. So I expect the cost of doing business with the Sabres for cap dumps to be crazy high, probably so high that teams will go elsewhere, if anybody is even willing to sell cap space. But at the end of the day, buying bishops contract made sense, but comparing it to any bad contracts going forward would be an apple's to oranges comparison.

I didn’t trade away anyone of note; just used cap space had

I saw some Oiler fan offer it so I took it and ran

So your saying the Sabres will take the Leafs second pair defense in its entirety and you'll take an additional 1st off our hands? Sign me up

Just don’t see COL trading EJ with just one year remaining in his deal, the needed cap space comes when it expires. Not knocking the value just my thoughts.