Équipe: 2022-23 Coyotes de l'Arizona

Date de création initiale: 9 août 2022

Publié: 9 août 2022

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

What some people need to realize is that teams are being FORCED to shed cap. They have no other option and there are only a few teams that can take on any cap space right now.

Teams that can take on cap and do not care if that "cap dump" is a good player or not:
1. Arizona
2. Chicago
3. Buffalo
4. Anaheim

These teams are more or less tanking and will not care that much if Holl or Kerfoot are decent players and "deserve a return back to the Leafs." Anaheim or Buffalo may surprise so maybe they can take a cap dump thinking they can compete and fall into the below category.

Teams that can take on cap and may care, and give a better deal, if the player is good:
1. Detroit
2. Ottawa
3. Winnipeg

These 3 teams along with maybe 2 teams from the first category may take on a decent player for cheap and not cost much for dumping teams. (Think Bjorkstrand to Seattle or Patches to the Canes). Those trades looked like fleeces but that's the cost right now.

There are literally 0 other teams that can take on cap and most of these teams would only take on cap if the contract has 1 year left on it, any more and the price goes up quite a bit.

Also take into account that if the "cap dump" player has a NTC, the possible teams may get cut down to 1 or 2 raising the cost to dump.

Teams that need to dump cap:
1.) Pittsburg
2.) Boston (Mid-season when LTIR players return)
3.) Toronto
4.) Edmonton
5.) Vegas
6.) Florida (Mid-Season when Duclair returns)
7.) Vancouver
8.) Islanders
9.) Carolina (If Gardiner does not get bought out, but he most likely will cause the cost to dump would be too high)

Lots of teams need to dump and only a handful would be willing. The following trades show what I believe it would cost to dump players from teams that need to dump from Arizona's perspective, these may get a little more fair if a team thinking the can compete would take on a decent players contract from a cap strapped team.

All these trades are for picks and the picks can be substituted for prospects of course, but the cost to dump this off season and most likely next is going to be a gut punch to anyone that needs to dump unless you are the Tampa Bay Lightning doing cap dumps to Chicago or Nashville where the cost won't hurt too much (still hurt, but just not as much as Patches for nothing or Bjorkstrand for peanuts).

Let me know what you think! What you agree with or disagree with!

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