Comments on: LeBrun: NHL will consider option to eat salary in trades

By: odj810

odj810 — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:51:42 +0000

the amnesty clause is a joke. that i completely disagree with you on.

By: greatminnesotasportsmind

greatminnesotasportsmind — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:11:50 +0000

Chicago and Pittsburgh (soon to be Minnesota) is who Columbus should be following. You suck for a handful of year and reap the benfits of drafting good (ah hem Columbus) and you win Cups. Fluery, Crosby, and Malkin for the Pens. Kane, Towes, and Seabrook for Chicago. Minnesota will have Granlund, Zucker, and Brodin soon.

By: scottybcboy

scottybcboy — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:49:23 +0000

Pittsburgh is not a ‘large market team’. Just sayin’.

By: jaybaileys

jaybaileys — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:49:34 +0000

Yea cause the league rigs everything for the Pens. Like when they suspended the guys who hit Crosby and knocked him loopy for a year and a half. Oh yea nobody was suspended for those hits. And how they rigged the playoff matchups so the Pens always had home ice in every round of the playoffs. Not so much they won game 7 in Washington and Detroit in 09. And yea it’s so tiring seeing them hoist the Cup 10 years in a row! They’ve won 3 titles in 40 something years, where do you rigging stuff. They sucked for years, when you suck you draft early. Is it their fault they evaluate talent and can draft solid players? They traded up to the number 1 pick to get Fleury was that rigged too? I think Nashville did well at the deadline, but aren’t they way under the cap? What is Shea Weber’s asking price? How about Dan Hamhuis? How about Ryan Suter?

By: phillyphever

phillyphever — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:47:02 +0000

I agree with jr, it’s not the salary that’s the issue. It’s the cap hit. Doesn’t matter if the team is sending salary for the player, it’s doesn’t affect the player’s cap hit (and there’s no way in hell any team is gonna agree to take some of that cap hit in a trade. Most of the team they just want to get rid of that contract entirely).

By: Jason Brough

Jason Brough — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:23:16 +0000

Maybe, maybe not. Just because other leagues do it one way doesn’t mean the NHL has to.

By: sknut

sknut — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:19:34 +0000

I like this, it would drum up more interest and possibly help teams leverage agaisnt those long term deals. Between this and an amnesty clause it would make the league much more interesting and more discussion which is always a good thing.

By: miketoasty

miketoasty — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:56:18 +0000

Where in this post did it say anything about Bettman?

Also, us Penguins fans had to suffer for a while before we finally got some decent talent. If you suck it up for long enough you get good players (Ala Edmonton Oilers and Los Angelas Kings), you also need to know how to draft so you don’t get busts (Ala Columbus Blue Jackets)

By: cmv08

cmv08 — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:41:44 +0000

Wow Bettman! You’ll do ANYTHING to get the large market teams the best players. Rigging drafts (a la Pittsburgh Penguins), enormous raise in the salary cap, Shanahan the Idiot and now this. You don’t like that Nashville got Gaustad? Well too f’n bad because they, unlike other NHL teams, were willing to pay the asking price. Let’s just get rid of fair trade in hockey. Actually, let’s get rid of Bettman! He gets booed everywhere he goes and with good reason.

By: govtminion

govtminion — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:32:44 +0000

That seems fair to me.

By: odj810

odj810 — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:29:21 +0000

If this goes through i think if they eat part of the salary they should eat part of the cap hit. so if you take on 1.8 m ofnashes deal you should pay 1.8 of the cap hit and the team who gets him pays 6m of cap hit.

By: jramler

jramler — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:57:01 +0000

It’s a minor point, but going by the way things work in other leagues the above example is wrong. Rick Nash would still have a $7.8 million cap hit no matter where he was traded, Columbus would just be allowed to pay $1.8 million of his salary. I’m pretty sure any proposal wouldn’t reduce a players cap hit.

By: govtminion

govtminion — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:44:39 +0000

Ahhh, good point. So I’m half-right- it WAS allowed at one point anyway. Interesting. Thanks!

By: tmoore4075

tmoore4075 — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:43:44 +0000

Jagr went to the Rangers pre-lockout so it was allowed then.

By: govtminion

govtminion — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:38:56 +0000

Interesting idea, actually. I thought this was already allowed, actually- kind of surprised to hear it isn’t. Isn’t that how the Capitals ended up paying part of Jagr’s salary a few years back when he went to New York?