NHL Rumors: Tony DeAngelo’s Trade from Flyers to Hurricanes Held Up By CBA Clause
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The Tony DeAngelo-Carolina Hurricanes reunion is on the rocks on yarn of a clause within the NHL’s collective bargaining settlement.
The team is asking to reacquire the defenseman with a history of disciplinary issues whom it traded away nearly a twelve months within the past, however a wage-cap complication is the motive force leisurely the incapacity to total the deal, in accordance to ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski.
The agreed-upon transaction had the Hurricanes sending a prospect to the Philadelphia Flyers for DeAngelo, with Philadelphia retaining 50 p.c of his wage-cap hit. Meaning that DeAngelo, who has one twelve months and $5 million final on his contract, would excellent depend for $2.5 million against the Hurricanes’ wage cap.
On the replacement hand, Rule 50.5 of the NHL CBA prohibits a team from buying and selling a participant after which reacquiring the participant rapidly after at a diminished cap hit for the reason that previous franchise retained wage. The legit wording of the guideline is “no longer at all can even only a Membership reacquire, as phase of a Retained Wage Transaction, the contract of a participant who used to be on that Membership’s Reserve Checklist within the previous calendar twelve months.”
DeAngelo made $4.8 million when he conducted for Carolina in 2021-22.
If the Flyers had been to no longer retain any of DeAngelo contract, the deal could be permissible. On the replacement hand, the Hurricanes grasp a form of players impending a brand unique contract, including star middle Sebastian Aho who is determined to be an unrestricted free agent after the 2023-24 season.
The team also has choices to invent at goaltender, as Pyotr Kochetkov is the acceptable netminder currently below contract for next season.
DeAngelo scored 11 targets and had 42 facets for the Flyers in 2022-23, however the team sputtered to a 31-38-13 file and uncared for the playoffs for third consecutive season and the fourth time in five years. Contemporary total supervisor Daniel Briere and President of Hockey Operations Keith Jones appear like taking a rebuilding diagram, so keen DeAngelo for a prospect is a value add.
The Hurricanes gained the Metropolitan Division in 22-23 with 52-21-9 file and developed to the Jap Conference finals the assign they lost to the Florida Panthers in a sweep.
