Its already at 50 so it cant be retained anymore

Yes, but that's where the second bolded part of my quote comes into effect.

Let's say GM #1 owns Player Alpha. Player Alpha has a cap hit of $8M. GM #1 can trade Player Alpha to GM #2 and retain 50% of his contract, which reduces his cap to $4M. GM #2 can also trade Player Alpha to any other GM that is not GM #1, and has the option to retain 50% of his current cap hit (the $4M). In the end, Player Alpha can end up with a cap hit of $2M. No more retentions can be placed on this player after that.

All in all, you do have the option of retaining Ennis's contract one more time, to a maximum amount of 50% of his current cap hit. If you choose to trade and retain 50% of his current cap hit, you would be retaining $1.150M and his new cap hit would be the same amount.

Hope that's helpful. If you have any other questions, I suggest you ask the CBA expert in @ricochetii

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Well Damn, finally something we agree upon

Coming April 1st it's the 7 Days of Ducks Sale Event

Just to get your interest, here's a list of names you can have for a reasonable cost....


LW - Gabriel Landeskog
LW/C - Brock Nelson
LW - Brock McGinn

C - Tyler Johnson
C/RW - Ryan Strome
C - Vinnie Hinostroza
C/LW/RW - Luke Glendening

G - Martin Jones
G - James Reimer

Also, but not listed here....ANYONE in the AHL

Willing to trade Rem Pitlick and/or Maxim Letunov for a right shot forward (or two).

You rang?

No more than 50% of a player's salary can be retained in a single transaction.
No more than 2 such transactions over the course of a contract.

This implies that more than 50% is permitted (or up to 75% in total), but I can't think of a real world example off the top of my head to confirm it has been allowed, nor can I recall any instance of it being denied (or treated as a loophole).

I'm not sure why the capfriendly explanation leaves off the bolded. It's possible they know something I don't.

Any single player contract cannot be used in a "retained salary transaction" (trade) like this more than twice. (So if L.A. had agreed to retain some of Scrivens' salary when dealing him to Edmonton, the Oilers could not do the same if they traded him on this contract.)

Found this in an article

@Banks @Jarvis any clarification on this by any chance? Thanks guys

Tyler Ennis was traded by Minnesota to Toronto with 50 percent salary retained. The original cap hit was 4,600,000. The new cap hit is 2,300,000.

Tyler Ennis may have no more than 50 percent of his new cap hit (2,300,000) retained in another transaction. This means that he can be traded with a cap hit of no less than 1,150,000.

@KSIxSKULLS @rangersandislesfan @DavidBooth7 @ricochetii

I really can’t believe I’m saying this but the Edmonton Oilers are listening on Connor McDavid. No promises he is moved as we will only accept the right offer.

Make offers

Retain 50% and ill trade Auston Matthews straight up

@rangersandislesfan
What would you give me for Ennis retained?

I TOLD YALL McDAVID WAS MORE LIKEY TO MOVE THAN PULJU

I am a bias Leafs fan, but not that bias lol.

Would you retain for Matthews?

Probably not since Matthews is going get a contract that is just a little cheaper than McDavid’s.

And Matthews isnt even close to as good as McDavid

The way i see it, you get Matthews for 925 for this year and next compared to Mcdavids 12.5 or whatever you retain it too. But fair enough

McDavids contract isnt even close to as good as Matthews

Find the butthurt Laughs fan

Since they can't retain on the extension, I'm sure theyre fine with doing that! Except you still have to add....

Karlsson+ for McDavid?

I’d need a 1C coming back. What would you be willing to add?

We can't trade Turris until Jan 1 ... Brassard/Pageau aren't really 1Cs.