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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Honestly, and as pathetic as it is, they needed the cap space to sign Brzygalov. They may have been able to do some housekeeping to get that tight fit but the team was hovering around 60M in 'hard' cap and an additional 9.1M in bonuses. The bonus cushion only applies for a maximum of 7.5%, or 4.8M, so that other roughly 4.3M of bonuses applies the same as regular cap like that other 60M, bringing them to near exactly the ceiling's 64.3M.
They could have waived Labarbera, and sent some other players down and might have been able to very tightly fit in Brzygalov depending on exactly what he was making. But this was a cap transaction, which I would have to assume was what MacTavish thought was the best way to be able to fit in Bryzgalov.
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Either you or another poster already explained that a part of the bonus money is counted towards the cap, so I'm glad you've stated that again. I was going off that earlier post when I said that the Oilers needed to lose a contract in order to sign Bryzgalov, and that was the main reason for the trade. Moon disputed this, so I'm glad that the facts are now out.