With the new rule trading Jbo is extremely easy as a team can get him as cheap as 3.3 million a season why buy him out he is worth more to trade.
Hey, Pens fan here, not trolling. I was the one who noticed the clause yesterday about trading cap space, and I think yours is the team that really could benefit from it IF you went rebuild before the deadline:
J-Bo is on the books at 6.6M for this year and next. Not much trade value there, especially with the cap at 64.3M next year. BUT, what if Feaster ate 50% of the cap/payroll hit? What is J-Bo for the balance of this year and then next year at 3.3M worth to a contending team? IMO, at that number, Feaster gets bidders lining up and you get back a sweet return.
Same goes for Cammallerri at 6M. No thanks at that number. At 3M, totally different story.
Kipper could be an interesting situation. Not sure how much he's got left in the tank, but if he were open to a move, then putting him out there at 2.9125M would get a boat load of interest.
Even Sarich . . . maybe get a below middling prospect at 2M. At 1M, he's got value to any playoff team IMO.
The rule is that you only can have three contracts like this on your books at any given time. And, you only can use 15% of your upper limit in cap money retained in trade (9.6M total for 2013-2014).
IMO, if you say 'we're going to rebuild' and you're willing to have 9.6M in dead space for 2013-2014, then IMO you could really, really accelerate the process (a real dark horse for 2014-2015 maybe) putting guys like J-Bo, Cammy, and Kipper out there at or near half cap hits.
At those prices, those three guys would be the hottest deadline commodities this year.