There are some fanbases out there eagerly awaiting a fresh salary dump, either to get their favored club under the cap ceiling or just to be rid of a boat anchor contract. Names like Souray, Sarich, Staios, Kotalik and Bieksa pop up a lot around these parts.
The problem with these expectations is two-fold: lots of clubs have spent their money already AND there's a glut of viable NHLers waiting in the unemployment line who can likely be signed for less without having to give up any assets at all.
To illustrate, here's my "all reject" line-up, consisting entirely of currently UFA players.
Kariya - Weight - Stempniak
Kozlov - Morrison - Svatos
Dawes - Comrie - Guerin
Fedotenko - Halpern - MacArthur
(Lang, Belanger, Nolan, Modin)
Johnson - Mitchell
Mara - Exelby
Schubert - Bergeron
(McKee, Mottau, Witt)
Theodore
Niemi
(Emery)
I bet you this club could beat the current iteration of the Edmonton Oilers, New York Islanders and maybe Colorado Avalanche.
