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The dedicated boredom thread for bored boardees... even Rich
richkrt99:
And more along the "boredom thread" theme....
When your dog does not realize he has a big butt....
richkrt99:
Caps currently have the second highest Team salary behind only Tampa Bay for the coming season.
Well technically Columbus shot past the Caps with Johnny Gaudreau signing but show 25 roster players and have to cut that to 23 so they will fall back (Caps are $37K less with 3 fewer roster players)
Caps are $6,321,666 over the cap. Caps DO have $17,166,666 in LTIR cap relief though, so technically to start the season they have $10,845,000 in cap space to "play with". Although I expect they are done spending. Curious to see what happens come spring and IF the Caps are contending if they make a move....they WILL have the coin to do so IF Backy has not returned. It will be unusual for the Caps to actually be able to AFFORD to make a move at the deadline for a change should they actually want to.
Tampa Bay is 7,195,833 over the Cap and have Seabrook on LTIR so puts them at $320,833 over the cap even with the LTIR relief.
Seabrook was done in 2015 and will never play again. I have no idea why TBL picked up his contract from Chicago. Did they trade and get future assets to pickup the contract tab? Apparently this was done in July 2021. Okay so I looked this up and TBL traded Johnson with his $5m cap AND a 2nd round pick to CHI for Seabrook and his 6.875m cap hit - only his is permanently LTIR so it basically cleared 5mil in cap space for the Lightning and Seabrooks actually salary averaged about $5m over the final three seasons. So even Cash money to TBL, cleared 5m in cap space, but cost them a 2nd round pick.
Also I read it his highly likely that CHI had insurance policy on Seabrook which would transfer to TBL, so the insurance will pay part of that actually salary.
TBL has been in cap trouble for years so I understand why they did it, but kind of expensive to give up a player and a 2nd rounder to get no talent in return. Sounds like a Cap move not a cap move :wackysmile:
And yes....I am bored.
Mickstix:
You adding up Wilson's 5 mill on that LTIR? Cause he's not gonna play until probably January.. :-\
Cute dog btw!
alta:
LTIR money right now is just Hags, Backy and Willy? Or am I missing someone?
Hags has all but bluntly said he’s not coming back. Backy is a major IF. Willy is the only one they have to have room for. So, they should still have money enough to make a deal on D, getting rid of an overpriced contract and replacing it with someone that actually plays D.
Ozzies09tc:
Matthew Tkachuck is now a Panther. Eff me i was hoping he'd be a blue... Makes the panthers better and the blues worse :/
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