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He doesn't say where that step they took ended up....in a huge pile of dogshit.
2025 NHL UFA/Trade Thread
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He doesn't say where that step they took ended up....in a huge pile of dogshit.
Sal_Butera
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Except when Nylander caught on camera telling Matthews & Marner on the bench “all you guys do is bitch..just play”
worm
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Sal_Butera
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“Public” saw it …
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Very public. These players know that everything they do once they come out of the tunnel is filmed and, in many cases, audio recorded as well. An NHL arena is basically a large television studio.
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For the CBA / cap brainiacs amongst you & our legal scholars …
For 25-26 season Habs currently sit w $8.67M cap space for 18-of-23 man roster - $95.5M cap ceiling
Price enters final year of contract, $10.5M cap hit consisting of $5.5M signing bonus due Sept 1st + $2M base salary
Per current CBA - teams are allowed 10% off-season cap overage = $9.55M over ceiling but need to be cap complaint prior to season opener in Oct.
WHAT IF :
- Habs follow contract stipulation & payout Price’s bonus Sept 1st
- Price files retirement papers Sept 2nd, voiding the remainder of his contract
- Price signs personal services contract w Mtl Canadiens org / say hockey ops is some capacity, G advisor etc. at a later date after retirement filing is official, and is paid his $2M or whatever amount?
This process would give HuGo $18.2M cap space ($8.67 + $9.55M overage) as of July 1st, and free up an additional $950K upon Price’s filing of retirement papers before season opener.
What am I missing? Looks like a pretty straight fwd means to gain flexibility and HuGo would not need to surrender an asset to a team to “eat Price’s contract”
Discuss…
For 25-26 season Habs currently sit w $8.67M cap space for 18-of-23 man roster - $95.5M cap ceiling
Price enters final year of contract, $10.5M cap hit consisting of $5.5M signing bonus due Sept 1st + $2M base salary
Per current CBA - teams are allowed 10% off-season cap overage = $9.55M over ceiling but need to be cap complaint prior to season opener in Oct.
WHAT IF :
- Habs follow contract stipulation & payout Price’s bonus Sept 1st
- Price files retirement papers Sept 2nd, voiding the remainder of his contract
- Price signs personal services contract w Mtl Canadiens org / say hockey ops is some capacity, G advisor etc. at a later date after retirement filing is official, and is paid his $2M or whatever amount?
This process would give HuGo $18.2M cap space ($8.67 + $9.55M overage) as of July 1st, and free up an additional $950K upon Price’s filing of retirement papers before season opener.
What am I missing? Looks like a pretty straight fwd means to gain flexibility and HuGo would not need to surrender an asset to a team to “eat Price’s contract”
Discuss…
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It's the least Price could do but he's under no obligation to make it easier for the club and the PA might have issues but I like the idea of freeing up all that sweet, sweet cap space somehow. The Habs can afford to pay Price, but if they can pay him and be free of his cap hit, that's a huge bonus. I don't think that the league has figured out this loophole yet and likely have no specific rule against it.
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View: https://x.com/mndamico/status/1925201155992211845?s=46&t=a3HPp5YfHU2XDo78oSJMFA
Another Quartexx client …
Isn’t Matheson’s wife from Buffalo….
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lecoqsportif
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Why would the PA care, this would put more real money in the memberships’ pockets.
worm
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It would be 2m less
lecoqsportif
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Then I misunderstood. I thought the creative bonus accounting allowed the Habs to “find” another 8.7M in cap space which translates into a new (real money) contract.
Price is still getting his real money.
Maybe it’s just have access sooner (July) than October when Price goes on to the LTIR.
Price is still getting his real money.
Maybe it’s just have access sooner (July) than October when Price goes on to the LTIR.
League wont go for it
Let 31 expire or trade his contract to a floor team
Habs can fill the gaps his contract isnt stopping anything
Still waiting for BB to fully develop but his concussion history is a concern
For MM and a signed BB to a fair contract , sure.
Cap recapture penalties. Plus the league will penalize them for circumvention
Why did their dumb ass GM acquire him in the first place? Mind you you’ll probably get back more than what they paid for him in Middlestad
Sal_Butera
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Why? Habs are following all protocol, paying his signing bonus per contract stipulation, it’s the player who has “decided to retire”…
Also, once Price retires, any employment he has with NHL teams are private employment contracts not governed by NHLPA / CBA
League has approved Price being placed on LTIR for last 3-seasons and no one expects he can play any longer
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I forgot about recapture penalties for front loaded contracts … thanks
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Yes, because the Habs are not the Lightning or the Bruins.