And don't say, "Cap space is expensive." This isn't a cap dump by Minnesota, because Dmitry Kulikov wasn't overpaid.
That's why they were able to trade him straight up for future considerations without having to throw in other assets.
I'd still call it a dump because Minnesota got nothing out of the trade other than cap space, but if your definition of a cap dump is paying somebody to take a bad contract off your hands, then I guess this isn't a dump.
i wonder if they're going after someone with the cap space they have.
would be funny if they sign rodrigues to a 5 mill deal for like eight years
lol you got me with that one. There's a bidding war going on with him apparently. He had nice plays vs the Rangers.. but 5 for 8 would be laughable. Will ol billy bags get his boy?!
Wait a second, Minn had to leave space for Parise and Suter, that's 12.743588 off of 82.5 and they still have 5.738 mill in Cap Space.... Who is Mr Guerin chasing with 5.7 mil in Cap Space?
Good question. Why else would they get rid of a good player with a reasonable cap hit when they’re already a few million under the cap? The only other reason I can think of is if they have an internal cap, but I don’t think that’s the case in Minnesota.
It seems difficult to believe that they now have almost $6M in cap space when they appeared to be in cap hell just a couple of months ago. It almost looks like they could have kept Fiala after all.
It's interesting to me how much Kulikov seems to have turned it around since his days in Winnipeg where he was one of the worst defenseman in the league. Good deal for Anaheim to grab a solid bottom pair guy for nothing.
I'd still call it a dump because Minnesota got nothing out of the trade other than cap space, but if your definition of a cap dump is paying somebody to take a bad contract off your hands, then I guess this isn't a dump.
I would define a cap dump as moving a bad deal for nothing / less than nothing.
This, this is just a bad deal.
It's interesting to me how much Kulikov seems to have turned it around since his days in Winnipeg where he was one of the worst defenseman in the league. Good deal for Anaheim to grab a solid bottom pair guy for nothing.
I'm late, but it's b/c Kulikov was still not fully recovered from that scary back injury. He suffered it in 2016 and wasn't fully healed until 2019.