NHL trade grades: Utah Hockey Club gets Mikhail Sergachev

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The NHL's newest franchise made waves on Saturday, but did they send too much back to Tampa Bay? We grade both GMs on the swap.

One team might be able to keep its captain and possibly add another big player, while the other showed its serious about taking big swings ahead of the first season in franchise history.Entering the weekend with the most cap space in the NHL made Utah a team to watch. How they used that cap space Saturday showed that the club is serious about trying to win in its first season in franchise history.

While Sergachev and Marino cost Utah a combined $12.9 million in cap space, it leaves Utah with what Cap Friendly projects is $29.414 million in cap space, while retaining enough draft capital to help facilitate another deal should Armstrong find it necessary. Moving on from Sergachev and $8.5 million annual cap hit for the next seven seasons allowed them to go from what Cap Friendly projected was $5.335 million in cap space to $13.835 million. But that was only for a few minutes when the Lightning tradedThat gives the Lightning a grand total of $16.5 million in projected cap space, which greatly changes the narrative around them in the coming days.

 

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