Thread: [News] Bollig on waivers
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Old 10-10-2016, 10:21 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by tkflames View Post
Stupid question of the day: why do we get cap relief by sending down Bollig? I thought with the new CBA that the cap hit counted regardless (at least a portion thereof). Is there a special clause for players with a cap hit under 1M?
You can bury the portion of a contract that is the league minimum + $375K. Bollig's contract exceeds that value. So if he gets assigned to Stockton, instead of having his entire cap hit of $1.25M against the cap, it would be reduced by $950K to a $300K cap hit.
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