Recalled/Assigned: Michael Chaput recalled

denkiteki

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Jun 29, 2010
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Yeah. They should hoard assets by taking on bad contracts (Dustin Brown, Bobby Ryan, etc.) I take Brendan Gaunce + a 1st + Andrew Macdonald every day of the week over Luca Sbisa.

Cap space is an asset. Just because Jim Benning does not understand this doesn't mean we should hope that other teams won't either.

Cap space isn't worth nearly as much as you might think.

Remember Pavel Datsyuk (7.5 mil cap hit, tho no actual money) was traded + 16th overall for 20th, 53rd, and Joe Vitale.

That isn't really a lot of value. A lot of teams are near the cap but at the same time, there are teams with cap room and in some cases, teams that want players with higher cap hit/less money (spend less to hit cap floor, not that it applies to Sbisa who actually makes 4 mil next year vs a 3.6 mil cap hit).

The other notable cap dump was Bickell + Teravainen for a 2nd (41) + 3rd (this year). Bickell has negative value but remember Chicago actually gets 2 decent picks out of this (and given their drafting, they might end up winning that part of the deal). The value again isn't actually huge for the cap dump...
 

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