As per the new CBA, they can only share the cap hit and salary no? I thought it was a 50/50 split if teams decide to move salary in trade? I thought I read that somewhere in the new CBA.
You can have up to three contracts at any one time on your roster where you can eat up to 50% of the cap/salary hit (same percentage for both), provided that your total eaten dollars is not more than 15% of the upper limit threshold.
I wondered if it was trade year only or life of the deal, but the example LeBrun gave was Komisarek, who has a year on his deal.
Some may laugh about it, but here's a thought: Cammallerri, J-Bo, and Kiprusoff have a combined cap hit of 18.425M. All of them are under contract through the end of next season. What if Calgary decided to rebuild and Paul Holmgren said 'I'll take all three, empty to prospect vault to do it, but I need you to eat half the cap hit'?
He'd get those three at 9.213M, especially beneficial going into next year. He'd have them for two playoff runs. Oh, and here's the real kicker: He can buy out Briere and the nut case in goal, save about 3M in cap space in the process, and THEN have that 9.213M open up after the 2013-2014 season.
It will be Holmgren or someone else (maybe Sather). BUT, someone with the balls to exploit it is going to make a deal like that.
J-Bo at 3.3M. Cammy at 3M. Kipper at 2.8M. Tell me who would be hotter trade prospects.
****, imagine what the market for Nash would've been like IF Columbus would've eaten a third of the cap/payroll hit.