Over the past decade the Coyotes have used the tactic of acquiring injured players, in most cases their playing careers are over and placing them on the long-term injured list. They have been collecting future draft picks to facilitate the transactions. They never have to give up anything in the trades, and it also costs them very little actual money because of the way the contracts are structured.
The Coyotes have done this, acquiring future Hall of Fame talent in
Marian Hossa, Pavel Datsyuk, Chris Pronger and Shea Weber. They have done this with lesser value players as well in Dave Bolland, Andrew Ladd, and Bryan Little. The Coyotes consistently have one of the lowest payrolls in the NHL and have massive amounts of salary cap space every year, they have become the league's dumping ground for undesirable contracts.