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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
If the next NHL CBA provides an amnesty for bad contracts, who would go?
Most NHL GMs have a contract they regret signing. If you are Brian Burke then you have a fistfull of bad contracts.
In some cases they can't find anyone to take the contract off their hands. In other cases the player may also have a no-trade or no-movement clause in their contract. They can't afford to buy them out because the cap hit would be too high. The Islanders have been paying Alexi Yashin for the past 3 seasons not to play for them and will continue to do so for the next 3 seasons.
Some GMs are hoping for an amnesty in the next collective agreement as there was following the lockout in 2005. We know that Brian Burke would likely choose to buy out Mike Komisarek who still has 2 years and $7 million left in his contract since he is a healthy scratch most games. Though Burke may finally be able to trade him to a small market team since his salary will not be less than his cap hit. So I looked over everyone's roster and here are the possible buyout candidates.
Anaheim - no one
Boston - Marc Savard (4 years, $13.525 million)
Buffalo - Ville Leino (4 years, $17.5 million)
Calgary - Matt Stajan (2 years, $5 million)
Carolina - no one
Chicago - no one
Colorado - no one
Columbus - no one
Dallas - no one
Detroit - no one
Edmonton - Shawn Horcoff (3 years, $17 million)
Forida - no one
Los Angeles - no one
Minnesota - Dany Heatley (2 years, $11 million)
Montreal - Scott Gomez (2 years, $10 million) or Tomas Kaberle (2 years, $8.75)
Nashville - David Legwand (2 years, $7.5 million)
New Jersey - no one
NY Islanders - Rick DiPietro (10 years, $45 million)
NY Rangers - Wade Redden (2 years, $10 million)
Ottawa - no one
Philadelphia - Chris Pronger (5 years, $19.25)
Phoenix - no one
Pittsburgh - no one
St. Louis - no one
Tampa Bay - Ryan Malone (3 years. $8 million) or Mattias Ohlund (4 years, $11.75 million)
Toronto - Mike Komisarek (2 years, $7 million) or Tim Connolly (1 year, $4 million)
Vancouver - Keith Ballard (3 years, $12.6 million)
Washington - no one
Winnipeg - Nik Antropov (1 year, $4.75 million)
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