There are some teams that want to get rid of some less than desirable contracts and players. The sellers especially will become more and more desperate as the deadline goes on to get rid of some on these players to the extent they'll be willing to eat some salary.
Olli Jokinen
Lets be honest. When the Leafs obtained Olli Jokinen a few weeks back; neither the team nor player was thrilled. If it is 2:50 pm and the vet is still a Leaf; look for the team to make it known they'll eat 50% of his salary. If not before that is when the Islanders, Blues or Canucks might bite on the trade.
Trio of Yotes
Arizona is hoping for a trade deadline miracle and hopes the buyers bite on either David Moss, BJ Crombeen and/or Martin Erat. The rebuilding Yotes have ZERO interest is keeping these three around.
Weber, Meszaros and/or Benoit
In the offsesason the Sabres brought in Meszaros and Benoit as warm bodies to get the to the salary cap floor. Just as much as the Yotes want the previous three; the chances of the two vets coming back next year is the same of them resigning Zenon Konopka.... just not gonna happen. Buffalo will take any draft pick for the turnover machine Mike Weber. He would be a perfect #7 de-man; only problem his cap hit is 1.666 million.
Flyers beyond desperate
The Flyers have some bad contracts on some aging veterans. Earlier Sunday they were hoping teams like Edmonton would bite on a package of Braydon Coburn & Vincent Lecavalier. The lowly Oilers even said no thank you. I would venture to guess that at this time they'd offer to eat 50% of the following contracts; Lecavalier (3 yrs left @4.5 million), Andrew Macdonald (5 yrs 5 million), Luke Schenn (1 yr @3.6 million) or RJ Umberger (2 yrs @4.6 million). Why do they need to free salary you ask? Team superstar Jakub Voracek is a UFA at the end of next season and would be looking at 7 million+ compared to him 4.1 salary currently.
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