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Re: Amnesty Buyout
Amazing how fast the league and PA can come to an agreement when they want to.
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Hank wrote:Amazing how fast the league and PA can come to an agreement when they want to.
Exactly, this may have been driven by a threat from Gomez and Redden to file a grievance against the Rangers and the Habs. The last thing the NHL or the PA want right now is something like this to take centre ice (pun intended) before the season starts. And if there were a grievance what type of pickle would that put the NHl should the teams lose? This simply allows two players to sign FA deals and play again in the NHL.
I'd take a chance, for the right contract , on both of these guys.
Front money is that Boston may want to re-unite Redden and Chara. Gomez is anyone's guess at this point but you would hope MG would be in there taking a look see.
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I heard NJ Devils would be the likely destination of Gomez. I guess he had his best years there and was a fan favorite. I wonder how bad he would get boo'd in MTL if he was able to somehow regain his lost scoring touch.Hockey Widow wrote:Hank wrote:Amazing how fast the league and PA can come to an agreement when they want to.
Exactly, this may have been driven by a threat from Gomez and Redden to file a grievance against the Rangers and the Habs. The last thing the NHL or the PA want right now is something like this to take centre ice (pun intended) before the season starts. And if there were a grievance what type of pickle would that put the NHl should the teams lose? This simply allows two players to sign FA deals and play again in the NHL.
I'd take a chance, for the right contract , on both of these guys.
Front money is that Boston may want to re-unite Redden and Chara. Gomez is anyone's guess at this point but you would hope MG would be in there taking a look see.
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He'd only have to score, what, like 3 goals?Uncle dans leg wrote: I wonder how bad he would get boo'd in MTL if he was able to somehow regain his lost scoring touch.
Man, the dude is getting paid twice... for sucking! If there was any empathy for Gomez for his career going into the toilet, it might gone now. At least Redden had to endure two years in purgatory.
Boo this man!
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Re: Amnesty Buyout
It's quite simple, buy Booth out.
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Absolutely - but Booth out and then spend the money on nobody as there's nobody available. That's a great solution to the 2nd line issues.RoyalDude wrote:It's quite simple, buy Booth out.
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He doesn't make enoughRoyalDude wrote:It's quite simple, buy Booth out.
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RoyalDude wrote:It's quite simple, buy Booth out.
Gotta wait now as he is injured.
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Does it actually make any sense to buy these guys out?Lancer wrote:Ballard's as good as gone regardless how he does this season, otherwise Gillis may as well let Edler walk. Welcome to Buttman's 'level playing field'.
Edit: depending on the CBA, there may not be much coming out of the owners' pockets as the buyouts will come out of the players' share of HRR (which I would interpret that to mean the money would come out of their escrow - employees paying themselves out of their contracts ).
I'm still trying to figure out exactly how the Amnesty buyout works, but from what I've read, the owner pays 2/3 of the remaining salary up front, which comes out of HIS pocket (not the escrow), however the amount is calculated as part of the players HRR %.
So for Keith Ballard, you pay him $2.8 mil to go away, leaving you the remaining $1.4 mil to find & pay an NHL caliber defenceman to take his place. Do we have someone else to play the #5 D-man position? Would we rather have Alberts?
The cap space isn't really an issue at all, as either Ballard or Booth could be sent down to the Wolves to clear cap space (if needed) and then recalled if we have a bunch of injuries.
With the compressed season there is a good chance that we might lose a top 4 D-man or a top 6 winger, so having Booth or Ballard would probably be better than the alternative.
And looking at the going price for free agents, I doubt that we'll find a significant upgrade on the market in the $1.5 - $2 mil range...
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A couple things:Zamboni Driver wrote: Does it actually make any sense to buy these guys out?
Each team gets two "compliance" buy-outs they can use the up-coming summer or in summer 2014. The buy out is 2/3rd in terms of money paid to the player but it doesn't count against the cap.
Also you can no longer send players to the minors to hide their cap hits. I believe the threshold is 900K, so if a player making $4M is sent down, $3.1M still counts against the cap.
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A-ha, well that does make a big difference...coco_canuck wrote:Also you can no longer send players to the minors to hide their cap hits. I believe the threshold is 900K, so if a player making $4M is sent down, $3.1M still counts against the cap.Zamboni Driver wrote: Does it actually make any sense to buy these guys out?
So the only relief then would be LTIR?
Obviously GMMG didn't figure that they could get anything of equal value for a lower price on the open market, so that's why they didn't buy either of them out....
And is there any rule to prevent the player from re-signing with the club for a lower amount?
Say for example that GMMG tells Ballard that they can't fit him under the cap at $4.2 mil, buys him out for $2.8 mil, and then offers him a contract that close to market value, at maybe $1.5 mil. He would still get his money, but at a much friendlier cap hit.
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Compliance buy outs were originally to begin this off season, and again next offseason.
However the PA and league scrambled to allow two players who had been sent home so as to avoid injury (which would compromise their team's ability to buy them out in the offseason) during the season - Redden and Gomez.
Those players were bought out with their cap hits for this season still on the books, they will come off this offseason as originally planned however they have also gotten the chance to continue their playing careers.
Nobody on the Canucks really fits the description (in terms of being so bad and such a certainty to be bought out that the team would send them home rather than risk compromising their chance to get rid of the contract in the summer).
However the PA and league scrambled to allow two players who had been sent home so as to avoid injury (which would compromise their team's ability to buy them out in the offseason) during the season - Redden and Gomez.
Those players were bought out with their cap hits for this season still on the books, they will come off this offseason as originally planned however they have also gotten the chance to continue their playing careers.
Nobody on the Canucks really fits the description (in terms of being so bad and such a certainty to be bought out that the team would send them home rather than risk compromising their chance to get rid of the contract in the summer).
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Yes, you can't re-sign a player you just bought out.Zamboni Driver wrote: And is there any rule to prevent the player from re-signing with the club for a lower amount?
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I can see a team like NJ trading for a guy like Booth (when he comes back from injury), instead of buying him out this offseason you could trade him for Zubrus at the deadline, he's a perfect forward for our 3rd line center, he's a UFA at the end of the season, but we could re-sign him a bit cheaper with a bit of term if MG wanted.Zamboni Driver wrote:Does it actually make any sense to buy these guys out?Lancer wrote:Ballard's as good as gone regardless how he does this season, otherwise Gillis may as well let Edler walk. Welcome to Buttman's 'level playing field'.
Edit: depending on the CBA, there may not be much coming out of the owners' pockets as the buyouts will come out of the players' share of HRR (which I would interpret that to mean the money would come out of their escrow - employees paying themselves out of their contracts ).
I'm still trying to figure out exactly how the Amnesty buyout works, but from what I've read, the owner pays 2/3 of the remaining salary up front, which comes out of HIS pocket (not the escrow), however the amount is calculated as part of the players HRR %.
So for Keith Ballard, you pay him $2.8 mil to go away, leaving you the remaining $1.4 mil to find & pay an NHL caliber defenceman to take his place. Do we have someone else to play the #5 D-man position? Would we rather have Alberts?
The cap space isn't really an issue at all, as either Ballard or Booth could be sent down to the Wolves to clear cap space (if needed) and then recalled if we have a bunch of injuries.
With the compressed season there is a good chance that we might lose a top 4 D-man or a top 6 winger, so having Booth or Ballard would probably be better than the alternative.
And looking at the going price for free agents, I doubt that we'll find a significant upgrade on the market in the $1.5 - $2 mil range...
With Ballard, his value should go up with this rusty defense this season, so we could get something decent for him at the draft I bet.
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Re: Amnesty Buyout
Depending on what the Canucks get back in a Luongo deal, the Canucks could possibly avoid buying anyone out this summer if they can start the year with someone on IR.
This way they can see how the cap plays out for 2014-2015 and use a buy-out or two in summer 2014 if necessary.
Regardless, all of this is too far away really know what they should do. It depends on Booth & Ballard's performances and how Higgins, Raymond and Lapierre play and whether the Canucks are better of re-signing any of those players.
This way they can see how the cap plays out for 2014-2015 and use a buy-out or two in summer 2014 if necessary.
Regardless, all of this is too far away really know what they should do. It depends on Booth & Ballard's performances and how Higgins, Raymond and Lapierre play and whether the Canucks are better of re-signing any of those players.