CAP loophole possible?

[Skroob*]

just in theory, to avoid cap issues, could a team trade the rights to a player, like Richards in TB, to another team, say the penguins, but then have the Pens "loan" that player back to TB? This way a team like pittsburgh would be on the hook for the cap, which they can handle for now, but the player still plays with the existing team, and in exchange, TB sends a pick to the pens for their troubles.

minor league teams loan players all the time. can this be done within the NHL?

(put aside for a minute that Richards is on a multi-yr deal, so there are no future issues at stake for the teams. sub in teams/players as you see fit to this theory)

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[Ted Hoffman]

Without even digging into the CBA to find the proof, absolutely not.

 

[kdb209]

Without even digging into the CBA to find the proof, absolutely not.

Yup. And with digging into the CBA to find the proof, absolutely not.

ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
...
"Loan" means the transfer of a Player from a Club's Active Roster, Non-
Roster, Injured Non-Roster or Injured Reserve List to the roster of a club outside the
NHL.

ARTICLE 13
WAIVERS AND LOANS OF PLAYERS TO MINOR
LEAGUE CLUBS

13.1 A Club shall not dispose of the services of any Player in which it has a proprietary
interest by Loan to a club of another league without first having complied with the
provisions of this Article. The Waivers that are recognized by this Agreement are
Regular Waivers, Re-EntryWaivers and Unconditional Waivers.

And of course this also ignores the minor issue that in order to play for TB, Richards would have to be on Tampa's Active Roster, and thus count against Tampa's Upper Limit, even if he were "on loan" from Pittsburgh.