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Originally Posted by H2SO4(aq)
can teams retain salary but not cap hit? for instance islanders take on the whole 6 mill cap his but calgary retains a couple mill in salary to make it more manageable dollars wise for islanders/any trade partner? just curious.
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No, the same percentage of both has to be retained. If the Flames kept $3M of his salary they'd also have to keep $2.57M of his cap hit on the books for the rest of the contract.