Since Arizona loves to have contracts for people that don’t play they should do a little PR work for their fans and pick a season ticket holder at random and give him a million a year for 5 years.

They can't utilize the LTIR in the offseason so the entire cap hit stays against them until the season begins. What this trade allows is more flexibility on the overall cap to probably resign a couple of players.

this arizona team looks stacked! ...in 2012

Getting to be a disgrace in Arizona. Get that team outta there

Can't put a player on LTIR until first day of the season (or maybe preseason). So that money isn't there until then and can hamper deals to get players.

A lot of talk about the Hossa cap space. I thought Chicago got out from under that because of the Long term IR rule? Was it coming back on them this year does anyone know?

They can't utilize the LTIR in the offseason so the entire cap hit stays against them until the season begins. What this trade allows is more flexibility on the overall cap to probably resign a couple of players.
- Viktory

Ha, nevermind. I missed this one. Good explanation. Thanks

So really,
Arizona gets Oesterle and Hinostroza
Chicago gets Kruger back, the rights to an 18 year old RW and cap relief

Meh.
- BURDA13

pretty much

Eklund: Hawks and Yotes Working on "MAJOR DEAL."
- Eklund

major deal for a retired guy for a bunch of nobodies.

Time to change the team name...

Arizona Cap Dumps

Time to change the team name...

Arizona Cap Dumps
- Razzdazzle1

sort of... they did dump kruger on the hawks.

I guess AZ does serve a purpose in this league.

Hopefully this is all so that Chicago can turn around and overpay Seabrook, even moreso than he already was

Oh did you hear? According to most Leafs fan's on here they already won the cup. Where have you been?
- Mino42

Where/when did any Leaf fan say this?

Another legal circumvention, picking on the handicapped.

Hawks for dumping Hossa contract lol

sort of... they did dump kruger on the hawks.
- Tumbleweed

Back to the hawks, you mean

Looks like a bunch of crap flying around

In all fairness Tanner doesn’t know what hockey is
- Kaden

Tanner is worse than a fly turned green on a pile of dog diarrhea. It's an abomination that he's allowed to write about my team; a team in which he knows virtually nothing. He knows little more about the sport itself. A clown is what he is and I refuse to click on his garbage nonsense again.

Karlsson to Hawks (e5)

Karlsson to Hawks (e5)
- NewfieStud

Ha, no, but they are making a push for Pacioretty right now. Will they get it done? Dunno. But this deal was apparently necessary to make something work.

Another legal circumvention, picking on the handicapped.
- DeuceNine

Who's picking on them, they agreed to the deal.

But really, it's a bunch of nothing for a different bunch of nothing.

I thought Hossa's contract didn't matter to Chicago because it's LTIR.
-Queenie_5_hole

You can place a player on LTIR on the first day of the season, it is possible to do before but there is a cap penalty to do it before day 1. The league requires you to be under the Cap before the season starts. I believe you are allowed to go over a certain percentage during the offseason.

Flyers had this happen once with Pronger. They had to activate him on LTIR last day before the season started and there was a cap penalty.

AZ wins this trade

Major Deal made me think Arizona was trading something of value to Chicago, Arizona gets the best two players in this deal so they win the trade.