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Originally Posted by Jay Random
You're not getting it. It's not a ‘legal loophole’. There is no loophole. There is no way for one team to retain 75% on a contract. If somebody made a trade that included 75% retention, the league would instantly void it.
It was absolutely impossible for your first scenario to happen. The closest thing to a ‘loophole’ here is that New Jersey could insert themselves into the deal to retain the extra 25%. No matter how you slice it, that was not going to give any extra benefit to the Flames.
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I think that's pretty much what I stated in the latter case and this is why I still feel this deal for the Flames is underwhelming.
Anyway, it'll be interesting to see other upcoming trades where teams are under cap constraints and other teams will be brought in to take in monetary cap hits just to satisfy the trades. Might happen again in dealing Hanifin and Markstrom.