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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I'm sure the Sharks are satisfied. They somehow got away with conveniently terminating a contract that they wanted to rid themselves of. NHLPA doesn't care because their player gets all his money owed. Seems like the NHL doesn't care either but if I was a GM or owner of another team I would certainly be interested about this blueprint of being able to get out of bad contracts without salary cap ramifications.
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But there is salary cap ramifications... the difference between the two contracts (his 5.125 million Edmonton contract and his 7 million San Jose cancelled one) will be recaptured on San Jose Cap for all the future years spanning that 7 million dollar contract.