Brian Burke is trying to promote movement in the NHL

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Brian Burke is trying to promote movement in the NHL.

Three executives told Sun Media yesterday that the Ducks president and GM has asked NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly to study a proposal that would allow teams to pick up a portion of a player’s contract to help facilitate trades.

I’m all for this, as long as the salary involved stays on the books as far as the cap is concerned. If a team wants to hold back part of a salary and have it count against their cap, be my guest.

The way it’s structured, and the way this works in the NBA where value for value on contracts is required, means very little interesting trading and innovation happens. Give teams flexibility, just don’t let them use it to get around the salary cap.

That could, in fact, lead to some interesting complexities — if a player is later waived and sent down, or retires, or a team decides to buy out a player, it could not only benefit that team, but also a competitor that had held back some salary in an earlier trade. Wouldn’t that be a hack!

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