Oh that could be it then.Hockey Widow wrote:Mëds wrote:I thought there was some new rule that limited the amount a contract could increase year to year. Like only a percentage of the highest salary year, or a percentage of the entire contract.Hockey Widow wrote:No longer have optional years. He will get 3, 3, 6. After that Columbus needs to qualify him at 6 million or he becomes UFA. If they qualify him, which they will do, they can take him to arbitration but he remains RFA.
A good bridge deal. He averages 4 per for three years, still some RFA status left at the end of term. Sets himself up nicely for a minimum of six+ per moving forward while Columbus gets good cap and good salary for the first two years.
All in all both sides win with this deal.
Isn't it the other way around? That it can't decrease from year to year by more than "x" per cent. I don't think a big increase is cap circumvention but as in all matters CBA I am probably wrong.
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Budaj goes unclaimed. Sure is a far cry from everyone around here worried about losing Markstrom. Budaj was easily one of the best backup goalies available, and if teams like New Jersey didn't want him for free, it really demonstrates how little (re: None) value Markstrom has at this point.mathonwy wrote:Notable is the recently acquired Peter Budaj.
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Just saw on twatter than the Flames' Sam Bennett needs shoulder surgery and will be out for at least a big chunk of the season.
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Bud jail? Fuck that. Set the Bud free!!Madcombinepilot wrote:Madcombinepilot wrote:...... If bud jail is claimed going down...
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When the Flames spat in the hockey god's eye, it must have been an especially phelgmy one.herb wrote:Just saw on twatter than the Flames' Sam Bennett needs shoulder surgery and will be out for at least a big chunk of the season.
Ahh.. it sure would have been nice to win that one in 2011. That's for damn sure.
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It works both way. Lowest year cannot be less than 1/2 of the highest year.Hockey Widow wrote:Isn't it the other way around? That it can't decrease from year to year by more than "x" per cent. I don't think a big increase is cap circumvention but as in all matters CBA I am probably wrong.Mëds wrote:
I thought there was some new rule that limited the amount a contract could increase year to year. Like only a percentage of the highest salary year, or a percentage of the entire contract.
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Ok, thanks. Then his contract is fine.Tciso wrote:It works both way. Lowest year cannot be less than 1/2 of the highest year.Hockey Widow wrote:Isn't it the other way around? That it can't decrease from year to year by more than "x" per cent. I don't think a big increase is cap circumvention but as in all matters CBA I am probably wrong.Mëds wrote:
I thought there was some new rule that limited the amount a contract could increase year to year. Like only a percentage of the highest salary year, or a percentage of the entire contract.
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Kesler has his first goal in his first game as a Duck. They trail Pittsburgh 3-1 halfway through the game.
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Chris Pronger, while still collecting 15 million from the Flyers, while on LTIR, has been hired by the NHL player safety department. Talk about a major conflict of interest. Raises the question if the Flyers should still get cap relief.
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Evander Kane out with a lower body injury. Looks like a knee.
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Kinda like collecting compo while working a 2nd job.Hockey Widow wrote:Chris Pronger, while still collecting 15 million from the Flyers, while on LTIR, has been hired by the NHL player safety department. Talk about a major conflict of interest. Raises the question if the Flyers should still get cap relief.
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If Pronger is still being paid as an active, but injured, player, how is the NHL hiring him to be in their front office?ClamRussel wrote:Kinda like collecting compo while working a 2nd job.Hockey Widow wrote:Chris Pronger, while still collecting 15 million from the Flyers, while on LTIR, has been hired by the NHL player safety department. Talk about a major conflict of interest. Raises the question if the Flyers should still get cap relief.
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If he's not an active, but injured, player, how is he not retired?
If he's retired, shouldn't the Flyers be stung for that contract?
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Fuck Pronger and fuck the NHL - what a joke. Guess his brain's ok now?Hockey Widow wrote:Chris Pronger, while still collecting 15 million from the Flyers, while on LTIR, has been hired by the NHL player safety department. Talk about a major conflict of interest. Raises the question if the Flyers should still get cap relief.
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Seriously? Isn't Bettman admitting the Flyers are circumventing the CBA/cap? ...why would Pronger care about "salary cap reasons"? He wouldn't, thus proving this whole LTIR situation was cooked up for the Flyers' books. This move once again hi-lights the arrogance.The NHL has hired former defenceman Chris Pronger to work in the Department of Player Safety, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman confirmed Thursday.
Pronger, 39, is still being paid by the Philadelphia Flyers even though he hasn’t played in the NHL since the 2011-12 season. He has not officially retired.
“Chris’ case is unique,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman told reporters Wednesday. “There are salary cap reasons why he couldn’t officially retire. I’m not sure that presents any problem at all to deal with. He’s done playing. He gets paid no matter what from the Flyers. He doesn’t owe them anything.”
This season, Pronger carries a salary cap hit of $4.9 million for the Flyers. The club signed him to a seven-year extension after acquiring him in a trade with the Anaheim Ducks in 2009.
The defenceman was suspended eight times in his NHL career for a total of 22 games.
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