Even though a lot of teams are keen to be active at the deadline, some of them can't do ant move for the moment because of their cap situation. And that's where we could see some help from organizations with cap space squeeze in some deals to recoup some assets.
Basically, we're talking about a three teams trade, and the Flyers could be in one of them this deadline. You already know that the Avalanche want to acquire Claude Giroux, but their cap situation isn't the best.
The Seattle Kraken are a team to keep an eye on because they have a very good margin still available, and according to Adrian Dater from ColHockeyNow, they would be willing to facilitate a third-party deal "to serve something as an off-shore tax shelter to park half-eaten cap space on a player."
We'll see where it goes, but this could provide a lot of help to Chuck Fletcher if he wants to make a deal involving Giroux with the Avalanche.