So with the rumors/news that Waddell is open to "weaponize our cap space" by taking on a player (per Porty, a forward likely a W) with salary from a cap strapped team (or a team looking for more room), I've been trying to look for some candidates.
Here's some names I thought of that we could potentially add and recoup a potential pick for future considerations or something:
Caps: Nic Dowd (1 year, 1.3 million)
Flyers: Nic Deslauries (2 years, 1.75 million per)
Canucks: Pius Suter (1 year, 1.6 million)
Penguins: Lars Eller (1 year, 2.45 million)
Kraken: Brandon Tanev (1 year, 3.5 million, NTC)
Wild: Marcus Johansson (1 year, 2 million, NTC)
Golden Knights: Keegan Kolesar (1 year, 1.4 million)
Preds: Colton Sissons (2 years, 2.8 million)
Non exciting names for sure. There are other guys out there but I did my best to exclude guys who 1. Just signed 2. Had more than 2 years of term, and 3. had NMC/NTC (although I did include some).
I considered throwing Evander Kane on the list, as you could probably get a pretty penny to take the full contract, but I didn't because 1. I'm not sure you want to put a guy with his baggage around a young, bad team. 2. Waddell wants a player who can help us and Kane needs surgery and will miss most of the year.