Two days later and no trade in sight. The Philadelphia Flyers were closing in on a deal that would send Tony DeAngelo back to the Carolina Hurricanes over the weekend, but things have hit a snag.
Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic reports that it is likely because of some hesitation from the NHL, over potential cap circumvention. DeAngelo was meant to go to Carolina with the Flyers retaining some salary, but since he was traded from the Hurricanes less than a year ago, it raised some red flags.
As LeBrun explains, this isn’t exactly a regular situation. The Hurricanes traded him as an RFA, meaning they didn’t sign this contract, and Daniel Briere, the Flyers’ GM, wasn’t in place yet when Philadelphia inked this deal. There’s no real circumvention here, just a player that has worn out his welcome and a team looking to create cap space.
The league is expected to meet with both teams in Nashville this week for the draft, where they will have to decide. Either sign off on it early, or force the teams to wait until July 9, when the calendar year since last summer’s trade would be up.
It does still seem like things are headed in that direction, though a two-week delay can change things considerably at this time of year.
THE LEAGUE IS JUST WRONG ON THIS ONE! If you are traded during the offseason both times, it should count as a year.
I love how THIS is where the league draws the line on potential cap circumvention, not teams loading up on “injured” players for the playoff run.
exactly, my Blackhawks in 2015, Tampa 2021, Vegas this year. 3 of the last 8 cups due to the stupid LTIR loophole
Yet it’s okay for the states with tax breaks to sign guys to lower AAV cap hits because they’ll still get more $ in their pockets than a higher total contract in a different state. The biggest separator between teams who have extended stays on top and the other teams who get one and done lucky.
“just a player that has worn out his welcome and a team looking to create cap space.” Couldn’t it just be a team cleaning house and rebuilding?
No. Not in his case. And it will continue to be used as long as he’s playing.
He was an awesome teammate and hockey player with the Canes. We’ll gladly take him back. Thanks for the picks and paying half his salary. He’ll be great again with the Canes.
Clearly Chuck Fletcher making a win now trade to save his job that didn’t work and resulted in his firing and Danny trying to clean up his mess is a secret plan to circumvent the cap. Meanwhile, what teams like the Golden Knights and the Lightning is completely normal.
Hopefully the league kills the deal. Just hold TAD til the deadline and move him. Tell Tortorella to suck it up.
100%.
Then they should apply the rules equally and not allow teams to put their players on LTIR until either before the playoffs where all of a sudden a star player is healthy enough to play a full postseason.
exactly, 3 of the last 8 cups were decided by a team using the loophole
Raleigh is ready for Tony with open arms. He always looks better in red, especially over Ranger blue.
Some of yall acting like the league is doing whatever it can to block the trade…it’s literally just an obscure rule because it has never happened before. And it’s not like its a malicious rule, it’s literally just to try and prevent teams from making handshake deals to circumvent the cap (i.e. trading a pending FA’s rights away so they can sign the contract they are looking for with one team and then immediately get flipped back to their original team at a cap-friendly rate while the other team picks up draft assets/prospects for their trouble). If this wasn’t a rule I wouldn’t put it past teams to attempt this.