Ted Hoffman
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- Dec 15, 2002
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EricBowser said:Times reported $37 million hard salary cap, 20% would be $7.4 million.
The following players after 24% rollback make more than $7.4 million
Jaromir Jagr - $8.36 million
Keith Tkachuk - $7.6
Alexei Yashin - $7.6
Niklas Lidstrom - $7.6
Rangers would be saved by Washington taking on $4 million of Jagr's salary cap hit. The Blues are expected to buyout Tkachuk and Doug Weight to have a clean slate financially with the cap.
I'm not trying to be an antagonist here, but why is it that when "salary cap" and "buyout" come up in the same breath, comments about the Blues buying out Weight, Tkachuk, Pronger, Demitra, Gary Unger, Barclay Plager, Philippe Bozon, .... come out more than comments about all the other teams buying out players combined (with the possible exception of Toronto) ??? Are the Blues backed into a corner b/c of their contracts with Weight and Tkachuk? Sure they are...but are you trying to tell me that the Blues are the only team facing this situation? I doubt it. Even if they are, everyone is saying that "salary cap" implies "buyout" and that implies that X player *will* be bought out. That's not necessarily true - it might make sense to do that, but as we've seen over the years...what a team should do and what a team does do are usually 2 different things.
I'll put $10 down that when it's all said and done, at least 3 other teams buy out more contracts than the Blues. I'll put another $10 down that the Blues don't buy out both Weight and Tkachuk outright - they may buy out one but will restructure the contract for the other. I don't mind the speculation on who buys what players out....but PLEASE - quit acting like it's the Blues who are going to be the ones benefiting from this option the most. If there weren't other teams who were going to benefit, this option wouldn't even be mentioned when details of the possible new CBA are discussed.
As I've said many times now....how 'bout we (gasp!) wait for the CBA to be agreed upon, ratified by the NHLPA, and then find out what the details are before we start rampant uninformed speculation about what every team is going to do?