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by Paul on 10/19/08 at 10:44 AM ET
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from Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun,
While it’s well within the rules of the collective bargaining agreement, the fact teams can bury their problems in the minors so that big salaries don’t count against the $56.7-million cap has GMs shaking their heads.
As training camps wound up last month, a host of players—including San Jose’s Kyle McLaren (making $2.5 million this season), Boston’s Peter Schaefer ($2.3 million) and Vancouver’s Matt Pettinger ($1.1 million)—cleared waivers and were sent to the minors.
GMs are saying privately that teams should be forced to pay for their mistakes by having demoted players count against the cap. Not everyone supports the theory, as teams still have to pay their problem players.
read on, more NHL notes and rumor talk too…
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