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Originally Posted by Trochu
Good assessment 270, not arguing one is more buyout friendly, just seemed an odd comment to make that one billionaire could afford it but a group of billionaires couldn't. We are talking about the equivalent to you and I losing $10 vs $20 here.
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I think any NHL owner can afford it but it needs to make sense on the gained cap space side. Oilers are picking up 12.5% of his salary and thus his cap hit or it'd be close to his annual salary of 6m for those 3 years. Around 5.6 per year. That's why the Oilers hands were tied. Untradeable...or so folks thought until Friday, no movement clause, no cap relief gained.
Chiarelli was a total putz. Hard to imagine a GM could be that incompetent. Must have been a Calgary plant.
