Blackhawks use bye week to generate half million of cap space

[Caeldan]

Have any other teams used this tactic? I though it was really clever, using a week you're not even playing to send down your rookies and gain the cap benefits.

Might be amended in the CBA in future seasons since the rules and cap implications were written well before the bye week was instituted, but for the moment it's a cheeky way for a cap-strapped team to add 500k.

According to cap geek, the Hawks - who are pressed up against the cap - currently have managed to unlock 6.3 million in deadline cap space. Obviously, any assets acquired would have to be UFA tho.

https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/blackhawks

The Sharks are the reason that when teams send a player down, they must physically show up at the AHL franchise.
They used to assign players to Worcester on off-days.
And now that the affiliate is closer, can do it again.

Philly did it when their affiliate was across the street from their arena.

Leafs do it a fair bit.

Basically any team where their affiliate is an easy drive away, they'll make full use of re-assigning kids who are waiver exempt for the savings.

 

[jmor]

Jets and Moose both play out of the MTS centre. reassigning and calling up players is easy here.