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Belgar

I'm a liar and a phone

One of those no good nicks you keep running away from

Mas.

I'm a man, well, nobody's perfect.

Belgar and Mazz.

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This is the Bruins take that we started the show with.

Simply put, the NHL finally came out with the salary cap figures for the year.

The salary cap limit was set at $81.5 million, which is down about a million and a half to $2 million from what teams thought it was going to be. Teams thought it was going to be around 83. It turns out it's 81 and a half. That makes a difference for a team like the Bruins, who when you run all the numbers and we gave it to you before, I'll give you a quick little synapsis of it right now, but basically something has to give. They've got to trim a player off. And I'm not talking David Backus.

Because that's easy. That's obvious. He makes $6 million a year. He was scratched at the end of the year. He's obviously the place that you would start, except for a million technical reasons that we don't need to get into here. You can't really buy him out. It's not going to save you anything. it's not going to save you anything to buy them out.

And also to trade them, it's almost untradable. To trade David Backus, you're going

to have to send along really high picks or prospects to get another team to assume that salary.

The example is Toronto, which just traded Patrick Marlowe, who was making just over $6 million

for one more year to, was it, Phoenix to the Coyotes,

and they had to send along a first round pick with Patrick Marlowe.

So the Arizona Cardinals, the Arizona Coyotes took on Patrick Marlowe and a first round pick just to assume that salary.

Do you want to give up a first round pick just to get rid of David Backus? And oh, by the way, Backus has two years left, so it may take two first round picks. If Marlowe's the cop, it takes two first round picks or a really, really high prospect. Like, you know, I don't know, name it, Vaccanin. Are you willing to do that? No, no.

And they shouldn't.

But, you know, any team you're going to try to shop that terrible contract to, because again, Bacchus, it's two more years, they're going to want some kind of sweetener, whether it's a first round pick or, you know, some young talented player. Okay, so quit dreaming about Bacchus. as far as I can tell, he ain't going anywhere.

You're just going to have to assume that salary.

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