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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Flames have not ever retained salary in a trade IIRC, so you're likely right.
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I think when you're in your winning window, the overall philosophy should be never retaining salary. Every penny is valuable. I think you pay almost any price to alleviate dead cap space.
When you're out of contention, selling off players and doing deals for picks and prospects, retain as much salary as possible on as many deals as possible.