NHL takes step to make Oilers trade strategy with Trent Frederic illegal
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The NHL has come to terms with a new Collective Bargaining Agreeement with the Players Association, and included among the changes is the banning of one popular trading strategy.
The Edmonton Oilers' big trade deadline move this season was to acquire Trent Frederic in a three team trade, with salary retained on his contract from both the Bruins and New Jersey Devils.
NHL takes step to ban double salary retention in trades under next CBA
According to reports from NHL insiders at the Draft, the league will ban double salary retention trades within a 75 day period in the next CBA. Effectively, this would only end trade-deadline double retention deals.
The double-retention trades have been an extremely popular mechanism around the NHL, so this decision will actually effect what trades are even possible.
In the last few years with the stagnant cap, double retention deals were some of the only ways contending teams could add players on larger contracts. Cap retention was expensive to pay for, but offered opportunities.
Fans on social media didn't love to see the NHL remove this mechanism for trades at all. Hopefully the rising salary cap kind of offsets the need for so much retention, but still, taking a fair option away makes little sense.
Oh make trades even harder to make. Great work guys - @DArm91
NHL needs to stop getting in the way of itself. Anytimes these trades went down, the team taking on the 2nd retention always got a pick of some sort out of it. I'd like to hear the reasoning why this was nixed. - @KwnStorm
Who does this benefit? Why would either side want a change to this? - @Archaeologuy
NHL needs to stop getting in the way of itself. Anytimes these trades went down, the team taking on the 2nd retention always got a pick of some sort out of it. I'd like to hear the reasoning why this was nixed. - @KwnStorm
Who does this benefit? Why would either side want a change to this? - @Archaeologuy
Fans want to see more trades, it creates attention for the NHL, and teams want flexibility from an ultra-hard salary cap. It's a head scratcher of a change from the NHL on all fronts.
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| No | 271 | 44.6 % |
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