One more take. The Oilers are over the cap and only their Klefbom LTIR gives them any room. They sent Neal down and recieved no real cap benefit at all because they are technically "over" the cap already.
Contrast that with Calgary where we are NOT over the cap. First day they put Doc Ryan on waivers solely to get even more cap space! They still played him! His contract paid him full anyway regardless if he was AHL and we got the 1 mil cap benefit pro rated to the trade deadline. Now of course Docs on LTIR giving us even more room should it be needed and we will still be under the cap. Tree manages the money very well, never mind a few bad contracts of the type all GMs make from time to time.
But who puts a 5 million dollar forward on their taxi squad? Has to be performance related. Neal is not in their line up against the Jets. Plus I'm looking at Capfriendly and it sure doesn't look like they benefited.
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