Thursday, February 11, 2010

But wait

Everything is great now. Apparently, Donald Brashear had asked for a trade a little bit ago? He whined recently that asking for the trade was why he wasn't being played, which I can only hope is not the case. He didn't miss the opportunity to call Colton Orr "a showman," while referring to himself as "a guy that can play and fight." That's a stretch. Anyway, who cares, apparently we released him on waivers today!

The bad (money) news: he's (obviously) over 35. This means that we're still on the hook for his $1.4 million under the cap this season and next. In sending him to the minors, we don't actually clear his salary, but we do, I believe, clear $100,000 of it (so his hit becomes $1.3 million). We could only have off-loaded the whole thing if we had traded him, which management, in an uncharacteristically aware move, decided wasn't going to be too easy. So, we take $1.3 million this season and next, and we have roster room for absolutely anyone else, or possibly no one, which is still an improvement.

And, if some other team wants him, we let them call him up, and they're on the hook for half his contract, leaving us paying $700,000, which, incidentally, is the amount we'd end up responsible for under the cap even if he retired.

You know what? I'll take a $1.3 million cap hit this season and next to keep Donald Brashear in the AHL for the rest of his career.

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