Can anyone think of a similar situation ?
Jim
> ...... but playing in the game.
>
> Can anyone think of a similar situation ?
>
> Jim
Allright "Petts" youre up next with Johns......"what? (hand to ear)
"Florida hey...." "siddown Petts, Hit the showers"
I read about this earlier today and thought it was weird. Pettinger says
he understands, knows he was just brought in because of injuries, etc. I
guess maybe Gillis/V are just giving him a chance to earn a paycheque.
At minimum wage, he makes over $6,000 for playing a game of hockey. Not bad.
Scott
I don't know his minor league contract, I would guess it's aboot 75K.
Being up with the Canucks is a real bonus for him.
The season is calculated this year at 193 days, and the player gets paid
1/193 for every day he's on the active roster. His NHL contract is 500K
and he was on the roster [ cleared and sent down today ] for 20 days.
So he made $51,813.48. Not bad is right.
Of course in comparison, Luongo made $777,202.07 in that period. :-)
Jim
I think the Canucks have the most depth of talent I have ever seen on this
team, not the most talent at the top end, the most depth. Goal is solid, and
at least serviceable three deep, D is as talented top to bottom as it has
ever been, and they seem to have a lot of quality forwards they can plug in
without really missing a beat. Now if they can just stop tanking against bad
teams they might move up the standings a little faster.
Would that also apply to Grabner who got injured while he
was up with the big club? He gets paid his NHL contract
every day while he's injured, even though he may be sent
back down as soon as he's healthy?
- Gary
Yep, same with Bolduc. Their salary doesn't apply to the cap, but
but they get paid the full nhl pop. Pettinger should have sprained
his ankle in the 3rd period and sat on his couch and watched his
bank account fill up. :-)
Jim
That's sort of what I was thinking too. : )
Maybe THAT's why players are hardly ever put on waivers and
then allowed to play a game!
- Gary
I was under the impression that injured players' salaries _always_
count towards the cap, even if they are on the LTIR. It's just that
for players on the LTIR, the team will be allowed to go over the cap
while the player is on the LTIR. In the case of Demitra, let's say the
Canucks _with_ Demitra healthy were $0.5m under the cap and Demitra's
cap hit is $4m, the Canucks are allowed to exceed the cap by $3.5m.
If this is not how it works, why did the Flames get into such cap
trouble last season? You'd expect the injured players to be a bigger
cap hit than the players called up to replace them.
At least that's my understanding of how the cap works, feel free to
correct me if I'm wrong...
Anders E
Anders I thought , yes the LTIR player's salary does count toward the
cap. You are allowed be over the cap by the amount of a LTIR players
salary. A player has to be injured for 10 games or 24 days I think
before he can go on LTIR, except in cases like Demitra and Schneider
who were injured before the season started. The Flames got in trouble
because they were in the last 10 games of the season, so the big
salaries of injured Regehr et al could not exceed the cap.
Does that make sense?
Marsh
> I don't know his minor league contract, I would guess it's aboot 75K.
>
> Being up with the Canucks is a real bonus for him.
>
> The season is calculated this year at 193 days, and the player gets paid
> 1/193 for every day he's on the active roster. His NHL contract is 500K
> and he was on the roster [ cleared and sent down today ] for 20 days.
>
> So he made $51,813.48. Not bad is right.
> Of course in comparison, Luongo made $777,202.07 in that period. :-)
>
> Jim
Ah, I thought it was $500k/82 games. That's less than half what I
thought it was, but still a pretty decent payday.
Scott
>At least that's my understanding of how the cap works, feel free to
>correct me if I'm wrong...
No, you're right Anders. I don't know why I said that.
Jim
>No, you're right _________. I don't know why I said that.
>
>Jim
another one for the file... ;-)
Heh. :-)
Drop the puck !
Jim
Remember the old standard: "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke up"?
Now is more like "I went to a math skills competitiond and..."