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Originally Posted by JohninAB
...... I thought under the latest CBA that this was changed so that if a player cleared waivers and was sent down to the AHL, their contract or a portion of it, still counted towards the NHL teams salary cap. Thought it was changed in response to what the Rangers did with Redden. Signed him to a big contract and when his play suffered, sent him down to the minors to get his salary off their cap.......
Or am I mistaken on this?
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IIRC you're not mistaken. I think the max relief is just under $1million.
So Oilers could save about 1 million off of Spooner's contract and all of Rattie's by sending them to the AHL. Someone correct me if I'm wrong as I am just working from memory.
This would be a significant amount of cap space for the Oilers who are pretty much tapped out.