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Above The Cap For Now
Published 8/14/2008 by Paul at KK Hockey
... long haul, but Blake is essentially a defensive mercenary, coming in at one year for $5 million to provide insurance on the San Jose power play. This pushes the Sharks just over the cap (combined with RFA signings for Christian Ehrhoff, Ryane Clowe and Joe Pavelski), and part of this was offset by the trading of Craig Rivet. Who’s left to cut? Look for GM Doug Wilson to beg anyone in the league to take defenseman Kyle McLaren and his $2.5 million cap hit. more teams that need to trim salary.

Thursday morning quickies
Published 8/14/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (The Forechecker) at On the Forecheck
Here are a few quick hits to keep you occupied today: 1) James Mirtle takes a look at salary trends in the NHL, and whether or not the "middle class" is getting wiped out by the salary cap. 2) Hockey on a glacier . Cool... 3) Mike Chen takes a look at teams currently above the salary cap. Get this one in front of David Poile. 4) John Glennon blogs over at the Tennessean , agreeing with my recent post at TheHockeyNews.com that when the Predators front office said earlier this week that they're comfortable with rookies filling key scoring ...

Teams Currently Over the Cap
Published 8/14/2008 by Kyle at IllegalCurve.com
... Mike Chen over at FoxSports takes a look at the NHL teams who are currently over the salary cap, and what they might do to get under it. ...