Jaded-Fan
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me2 said:They might make an exception for the start of this season on the proviso that the releasing team doesn't pick up player as UFA. Otherwise I'd agree with buyout counting under normal operation.
Or Philly could trade LeClair and Amonte with enough money to cover ~66% of their salaries to Pittsburgh or Nasville for "future considerations". Then Philly loses their salaries, Pittsburgh gets $11.4m in salary ($15m less 24%). Its not that different an idea from the NHLs forced draft of over priced players.
We had this discussion before in a different thread before (we meaning the board, not you specifically). Pittsburgh did not position itself for this CBA so well to become a garbage dump for teams who did not. We would not take LeClair for $9 million when he is producing 24 goals and 55 points. At that salary that is a garbage player if I ever heard of one. Don't you think that we could spend 11.4 million better? Philly will be stuck with a player like LeCalir UNLESS they really 'pay' us to take him off their hands. And them giving us money to pay the salary means diddly. He will count against the Cap and we could use that Cap room much better, and we can afford $32 million thank you very much, we have had salaries that high before, and higher, not long ago, in 2002. Get a new arena, slots and we can easily make $42 million. I am talking a first and a top prospect.