It's too bad Gomez in Montreal never worked out, save for his first year here. I liked the acquisition (not saying we didn't get fleeced in the trade, I'm saying I liked that we got Gomez), and he seems like a genuinely awesome guy.
I wish him the best, and hopefully we all get the chance to boo him at the Bell Centre next season.
I'm with you on this. Had he kept up his first year here, the whining about McDonagh wouldn't be anywhere near the level it's at now (deservedly so).
Some team buy out Gomez by trading him and get McDonagh, some other team do it by sending it home. I guess we owe that to the Rangers for not picking Plekanec in the Kovalev deal.
They have to pay him regardless and still have to take the vast majority of his cap hit. The 900,000 just covers the AHL player who takes his place.
I think he meant a $3M cap hit, in which case, I agree. He'd probably still be here. $3M is still overpaid (he's worth about $1.5M max, IMO), but it's not such a bad overpayment that it's not workable. We'd only have $2.1M on the cap even if they bought out Bourque, Kaberle, and sent Gomez to the minors. Obviously, its a moot point since his cap hit is actually more than double that though.
Is he? The money that Scott Gomez would have costed will be used to pay someone else so that in the end result, Molson is actually paying more (Gomez's buyout + new player).
Well keep in mind the cap is going down by almost 6 M next year, so either way Molson will be saving $ on his payroll.
The bottom line though is Molson will go from being scheduled to pay Gomez 4.5 M...to paying him 1.5 M in 2013-14 and 1.5 M in 2014-15.
Well keep in mind the cap is going down by almost 6 M next year, so either way Molson will be saving $ on his payroll.
The bottom line though is Molson will go from being scheduled to pay Gomez 4.5 M...to paying him 1.5 M in 2013-14 and 1.5 M in 2014-15.
Are you sure he doesn't get the entire amount. Didn't those reduced numbers only apply to the calculation of the cap hit and not the money the player received.
I think he meant a $3M cap hit, in which case, I agree. He'd probably still be here. $3M is still overpaid (he's worth about $1.5M max, IMO), but it's not such a bad overpayment that it's not workable. We'd only have $2.1M on the cap even if they bought out Bourque, Kaberle, and sent Gomez to the minors. Obviously, its a moot point since his cap hit is actually more than double that though.
Only because of the impending buyout and injury risk. Otherwise, as long as his cap hit is higher than the AHLer being recalled he would be released based on performance as there wouldn't be any other reason to do it.
With the impending buyout it would have been a huge distraction to the team so congrats to Bergevin for having the balls to make this move.
Neither necessary or funny. I thought the other title was classy.
We have plenty of ********** on this board.
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Of course, I don't live in Montreal though.
You made your own point with that last line. It's an endless dead horse, hopefully that's coming to an end now and they'll probably move onto their new scapegoats, Kaberle and Bourque.
How much money on the cap do they get back on the buyout for the last year of his contract?
No $$$ from his buyout goes onto the cap. If we buy out Kaberle OR Bourque (if one of them performs poorly) after this season, their $$$ will also not count towards the cap in any way.
This year, we save $900K on the cap by sending him down (assuming we do).
