I dont know either, just says they can do it 3 times, so a few million on Scuderi is not worth wasting a bullet.
I never knew about this rule, just seeing if salaries HAD to match to make a deal. We know Florida took Soup and his 7 million off our hands for nothing before. I really am not sure if anyone used this before.
The rules of RSA contracts are this:
- The retained salary on on the teams books until the contract expires - it can't be traded away.
- The percentage retained cannot exceed 50 percent of the player’s salary (including all bonuses) and Salary Cap Hit.
- The same percentage must be retained for both the player’s salary and Salary Cap Hit, and cannot be modified.
- All teams are limited to a maximum of 3 retained salary contracts per season.
- Teams cannot retain an aggregate amount of more than 15 percent of the Salary Cap Upper Limit.
- Players’ contracts are limited to 2 retained salary transactions per contract.
- A team cannot reacquire a player whom they have retained salary from for a minimum of one year after the date of the transaction, or unless the player's contract expires or is terminated prior to the one-year date.
- All teams involved in a retained salary transaction will have cap implications if the contract is bought out or terminated.
- Teams who retain salary on a players contract, will have the full value of the cap hit act against the teams salary cap total, regardless of whether the player is reassigned to the minors by their current team.
What does this mean for the 'hawks and, say, one of our übercontracts?
For one, no matter what happens, the 'hawsk are on the hook for that dead cap space until the contract expires--so for Toews, Keith, and Kane--2023. For Seabs? 2024.
The 'hawks can retain only up to 50% of the cap hit. They can't retain more. Also, even if the actual salary changes with respect to the cap hit, the RSA percent has to remain--so if Seabs is RSA's at 50%, the 'hawks are on the hook for 1/2 his salary per year--so in 2021 they'd be on the hook for 2.5M in real salary, and 3M in 2022 due to Seabs' contract structure. For a team looking to reach the cap floor at minimum salary cost, this can be a dealbreaker.
As you brought up--a team can only retain salary on 3 contracts/season. This hasn't been reached to my knowledge by any team, but if hypothetically speaking, the 'hawks retain on Saad, Seabrook, and Anisimov, they cannot RSA another contract until one of them expires--so 2022. So, if hypothetically Murphy falls off the cliff and the only way he could be moved is if we retained salary, we're SOL.
The most the 'hawks can retain is 15% of the cap limit. So, if hypothetically the 'hawks RSA's Toews and Kane at 50%, the most for their 3rd contract they could RSA would be 750k (at 2018 cap dollars).
If a player has been RSA'ed on a current contract, they can only be RSA'ed once more. So if Phaneuf (who was RSA'ed) gets traded with another RSA on his deal, and the team he goes to wants to RSA him, they can't.
If the 'hawks RSA'd Seabrook, and wanted to require him at the TDL of the same year they RSA'ed him, they couldn't.
The "cap implications" is very vague, but I'd imagine the results would be like if a team broke a recapture: so if we RSA Seabrook and the receiving team buys him out or he retires, I'd expect some cap penalty imposed.
And, if we RSA Seabrook to, say Vancouver, and they decide to send him down to Utica, We are still on the hook for his RSA money.
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IMHO RSA deals work the best on contracts about to expire--not ones that are long-term out there. Hypothetically, if the 'hawks are complete sellers at the 2020 TDL, and another team wants an elite goalieand is willing to send out prospect (and he waives), by all means RSA Crawford, since after that his contract expires ands the 'hawks aren't on the hook. But Keith, Seabrook, Toews, and Kane? that could be a mistake we're paying for for a long time especially with a lot of youth coming up who will be looking for a deal. Would you want to lose out on resigning, say, Debrincat because we got dead capspace? I wouldn't.