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The ‘23-‘24 boredom thread.. no square poop allowed
richkrt99:
Holy cow. Didn't see that coming. Sucks for Backy, but sadly I think it is time.
So....what does that mean for salary cap....does he get moved to LTIR/IR for cap purposes?
very little info out there.
I think this team could use $9m
Really sucks though. Rather see Backy go out with another Cup and retire legit. He's one of the good guys I think
richkrt99:
Yikes...this is interesting. I liked Brown but this loophole is ridiculous. Basically the Oilers signed him for league minimum salary but with a $3.25m bonus that is excluded from the cap (for playing 10 games). that's some serious lawyerly BS, but the rules is the rules.
The fact that the Brown has zero points in 9 games is interesting.
https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2023/10/31/connor-brown-is-about-to-get-a-giant-payday-from-the-oilers-for-simply-playing-10-games/
The headline reads like Brown did something tricky, but really the Oilers just paid him $4m for a 1 year deal, but only $775k shows against the cap.
alta:
I’ve been looking, and it’s clear as mud. There’s language in the salary cap about signing a contract before and after the age of 35 then retiring before and after the age of 35 and what that means to the cap hit. Backy is now 35, but he signed his current contract before the age of 35.
Either way, the Caps need to put Backy on LTIR now. It’s not official yet, but likely will be shortly. A player can retire at any point in their career. But as soon as they do the contract is over and no more paychecks. It doesn’t appear money would be an issue with Backy, but may as well get as much as you can.
There’s also the Kucherov precedent that Tampa set.
Beaglefan2:
I would be shocked if Nicky retired and walked away from the money. It is both this year and next year, so he would be walking from almost $18 million. He went through the surgery and the comeback because he is competitive, but also for the money.
alta:
Apparently 33yo Dowd hasn’t skated at all since game 2. He did have “core surgery” in the offseason and noted in camp that it didn’t fix everything. 36yo Oshie had a minor procedure on his back in the offseason and he looks like he’s still not 100%. This decision by Backy has to be on their minds.
Backy at $9.2M, Oshie at $5.8M and Dowd at $1.3M are UFAs after 24-25.
McMike did take a couple shifts at center in place of Backy in Mondays practice. Backy must’ve said something to the team before today. And, with Backy out indefinitely/permanently, that leaves more than enough cap space to get Dowd, Edmundson and Pacioretty off of IR.
38 year old OV still skews the average age of the team though.
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