I know the wings are in a cap crunch and probably had to make this trade, but how to you only get two mid-round conditional picks AND retain 50% salary for the rest of the season on a young starting goalie? I know he hasn't performed great this year, but he was nowhere near a lost cause.
It's not a cap issue at all. If the Wings didn't trade him, they didn't have to resign him and could spend that new found money elsewhere. From the little return that Wings got, they had no intention of resigning him.
@crosbynum1 you're wrong... Players aren't paid lump sums of millions. They get paychecks every week. He's already been paid almost $3M of his $4.1M salary. So they will split the actual money 50/50 which comes out to probably around 600k per team for the rest of the season. The "cap hit" is irrelevant at this point of the season since teams have banked cap space for the deadline so the 50% retention isn't as crazy as most people think..
@crosbynum1 you're wrong... Players aren't paid lump sums of millions. They get paychecks every week. He's already been paid almost $3M of his $4.1M salary. So they will split the actual money 50/50 which comes out to probably around 600k per team for the rest of the season. The "cap hit" is irrelevant at this point of the season since teams have banked cap space for the deadline so the 50% retention isn't as crazy as most people think..
Ahh fair enough. I honestly completely forgot about that part. and because he's a RFA next session they really didn't retain to much. But the cap hit still counts against a teams Cap right. even tho its not what he's really paid.
Ahh fair enough. I honestly completely forgot about that part. and because he's a RFA next session they really didn't retain to much. But the cap hit still counts against a teams Cap right. even tho its not what he's really paid.
yeah the cap hit does "count" so to speak, but it's irrelevant for the Wings at this point because they aren't buyers at the TDL so Hexy really didnt' have to pay that much to have them retain. Probably made the protections a little easier for DET if they retained a chunk of his salary.
Montreal gets a 5th unless Montoya plays more than a certain number of games, which hasn't happened yet. Besides, I don't see those trades as entirely comparable, mainly because Montoya is signed through next year at a reasonable rate, Mrazek is not and likely becomes a UFA in summer. Their NHL career stats are comparable though: Montoya has 165 gp, 2.64 gaa and 0.908 sp, while Mrazek is at 166, 2.60 and .912.
Montreal gets a 5th unless Montoya plays more than a certain number of games, which hasn't happened yet. Besides, I don't see those trades as entirely comparable, mainly because Montoya is signed through next year at a reasonable rate, Mrazek is not and likely becomes a UFA in summer. Their NHL career stats are comparable though: Montoya has 165 gp, 2.64 gaa and 0.908 sp, while Mrazek is at 166, 2.60 and .912.
Montoya has one of the worst numbers on the last 5 years for an NHL goalie, Hes 34 and has injury problems
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