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The salary cap has had a a significant impact on the way teams are built NHL these days, and it's also made completing trades -- particularly in-season trades -- significantly more difficult than it was in the pre-cap era. Teams not only have to have the proper assets in terms of players and draft picks to get a player that can put them over the top, but they also have to have enough room under the cap to fit said player on their roster. Now that we're two weeks away from the Feb. 28 trade deadline, moves are starting to fly, and in the past week we've seen a couple of significant trades involving players like Francois Beauchemin, Michael Frolik and Mike Fisher. And there's certain to be more. That said, it's time for our annual look at players with a chance of being traded, and what they would cost against the salary cap.
The players most likely to move are veterans that are set to become free agents after this season playing on teams with no hope of qualifying for the postseason. As of Monday, that list isn't a long one, but includes teams like Toronto, Edmonton, Florida, Ottawa, New Jersey and the New York Islanders, with the St. Louis Blues and Colorado Avalanche very close to joining them. Those teams are loaded with players that fit the bill of a deadline rental for a playoff bound team.
Just as a reminder -- When an in-season trade is made the cap hit the team takes on is a pro-rated amount of the players average annual salary. The formula: The average yearly salary for the player, divided by the number of days in the season (186) and then multiplied by the number of days remaining in the season (41 days on deadline day).
And now, on to the list (all cap numbers come via CapGeek and are approximate)...
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Source: http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2011/02/14/nhl-trade-deadline-cap-hit-for-potential-rentals-on-deadline-da/
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