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Originally Posted by Milt Schmidt
The Boston writers were saying on twitter that he just has to report, as does the tsn story here:
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=415479
The draft pick the Bruins acquired is conditional on Thomas reporting to the Islanders or to any other team in the event the Islanders should trade his rights elsewhere.
The move puts the Islanders above the cap floor and the team can choose to toll the contract so they can keep using the cap hit in perpetuity if Thomas doesn't come back, or just let his contract expire at the end of the season.
Milt |
The first paragraph the NY press disputes, saying he has to play one game.
The second paragraph Bill Daly disputes, saying the cap hit will not be allowed to roll over into next season. Also, if the writer had checked, he'd have found the isles cap was just below $50m when the trade was made because Visnovky joined the isles early this week. They were already above the floor.