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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Cap always comes with some term. Except in the case of fully insured contracts of players on LTIR-retirement, it always comes with money. So the bolded part of the sentence, while technically true, is irrelevant to most teams' problems.
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Arizona pays you $750,000 to sit in the pressbox or pays Lucic $825,000 to sit in the pressbox. That's $75,000 difference. Right? If the Flames retain $75,001 does it all of a sudden jump from a cap dump like Ladd (multiple 2nd round picks) to a cap dump like Bishop (7th round pick)?
But now Arizona pays you $750,000 to sit in the pressbox and otherwise ices a roster of $61M to stay above the floor, or pays Lucic $825,000 to sit in the pressbox and ices a roster of $57M to stay above the floor thanks to Lucic's cap hit. All of a sudden they are saving 4M...that's why Bishop was traded for nothing, and why Lucic (if he waived) would be at least able to do.