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Leafs Talk / Re: Line-up changes
« Last post by Saint Nik on Today at 03:10:26 PM »2. Trade Komi to a team in financial difficulty. The other team uses the fact that Komi is paid $1 million less than his cap hit next year in order to pay less than the cap floor and thereby save the owner money. It would also help if the team Komi was traded to was weak and shallow on D so Komi was less of a detriment to his new team than to the leafs. Knowing that Komi has negative value to the leafs, the leafs would have to take back some salary though but perhaps that salary could be buried in the minors. Perhaps a team like the islanders could benefit from this sort of exchange with the leafs. They are weak on D and a low spender. I don't know who would come back to the leafs -- surely someone we don't want.
I generally agree with this post about the realistic options for dealing Komisarek but I do think that we've tended to over state the importance of the value of guys who have a team friendly discrepancy between their salary and cap hit like Komisarek. I think the reason that we did, or do, is that we can forget that even poorer teams are run by competitive people who have serious incentives to win.
In a way, a team at the floor has the exact same dilemma as a rich team when it comes to Komisarek. The Leafs may say that they only have 63 million of cap space and they don't think Komisarek is worth 4.5 million of it but a team like the Islanders(who are above the floor but work in this sense) will have to decide if he's worth paying 3.5 million of the team's limited 48 million dollar budget. I'm not sure it's all that easier a question.
Along those lines, if I'm Garth Snow and I know that my owner has to pay 48 million a year I think I'd want to use every one of those dollars to put a competitive team on the ice. Sure, he'll score some points going to his boss at the end of the year and saying that he got the results he did while paying a million or so less in actual dollars but I have to think that any GM with a pulse would rather use that million dollars on an actual player and see if they can improve the results. Unless you're actually dealing with the owner I can't imagine too many GM's are going to be that business focused.
