from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,
The only way this NHL trade deadline could be more dramatic and entertaining is if the league and the Players’ Association would agree to allow teams to expressly trade cap space instead of the wink-nod bartering of it by dealing long-retired legends inhabiting long-term injury lists across the league.
Be serious, were you even as remotely shocked as I that Shea Weber waived his no-move to go to Arizona?
Amending the collective bargaining agreement to allow pay-for-play deals would promote and provoke a veritable orgy at the marketplace. It would also increase the escrow calculation, however, which is pretty likely a nonstarter position to endorse for an executive director just assuming office, as is the PA’s Marty Walsh. The rule also likely protects big-market contenders from themselves.
But it sure would produce a lot more fun and a fair amount of additional chaos into the period that defines the deadline.
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