News: If Shea Weber retires at the end of the 2025/26 season Nashville will suffer a $24.57M cap hit.

[Legionnaire11]

All David Poile had to do was pass on the contract. He did not. He is well aware of the ramifications.

How was he aware of ramifications that didn't exist when the contract was signed?

 

[HOPE]

They'll have to trade for Weber to buy him out. Montreal with a lot of leverage.

thats what i'm saying.

 

[Dog]

This is like a doomsday scenario for Nashville! Not happening and we are not going to die!

 

[herzausstein]

All David Poile had to do was pass on the contract. He did not. He is well aware of the ramifications.

Except these type of contracts had been going on for years and the cap recapture penalty didn’t exist yet so what ramifications was he aware of?

 

[Jag68Sid87]

Yes, that's all he had to do. As someone with a Pens avatar I'd think you'd understand the situation considering we were in the same situation coming out of the lockout.

Point being this is not news. Poile knows what is going on. This is a splashy headline but the Preds know this.

 

[Djp]

Haven't we known this for years

Some always discover the world isn’t flat....

 

[notsocommonsense]

LOL “forced”
Like they didn’t have a choice...

I love when people double down on their original stupid comments

 

[egelband]

That's nonsense. Even if I hated the Habs (I don't) I wouldn't wish that on them. There has to be some reasonable way to resolve this.

 

[airlouche]

This is ridiculous for the league....

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

News... this is so old

 

[Djp]

How was he aware of ramifications that didn't exist when the contract was signed?

Recapture didn’t come until new CBA...after this contract was signed.

Most likely web retires when $1M salary kicks in. Montreal could always buy him out.

 

[Five Alarm Fire]

Also, the amortization of the cap penalty makes zero sense. If a team signs a player to an obscene contract length, and said player plays most of that length, it shouldn't be a higher penalty. It should be similar to a buyout where the more remaining years nullified, the larger the penalty. More term on the penalty is actually preferable to eating a one-year cap penalty, it's ridiculous.

 

[gn2007]

The new cba would probably have a retro on contracts and figure a way to not screw the original team. Or 2 buyouts and only on players over 35

 

[justafan22]

Also, the amortization of the cap penalty makes zero sense. If a team signs a player to an obscene contract length, and said player plays most of that length, it shouldn't be a higher penalty. It should be similar to a buyout where the more remaining years nullified, the larger the penalty.

Isn't a cap penalty higher than the league max salary weird?

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

That's OK, they can just unload that to Carolina for 4 1sts.

What are the 2026-2029 drafts looking like for depth and top end talent? Could be worth it.

 

[Pinkfloyd]

Yes, the choice was between matching and not matching the cap evading contract. Now they are on the hook for the fair and proportional punishment of...uh, $24 million

Not likely. It's in the best interest of neither the PA nor the league at this point to actually enforce such an extreme penalty when it wasn't Nashville's choice to structure the contract as it was and they had no idea that the recapture penalty would be as it was. It wasn't their intention to sign Weber to such a contract. It was Philly's intention in a predatory way to torpedo a franchise for a premier player. I wouldn't be surprised to see the league negate the penalty entirely due to the circumstances surrounding this particular contract. There's no reason to put Nashville under the gun when it was Philly's contract structure.

Having to essentially be below the cap floor by a few million in current player salary in order to be cap compliant would torpedo a team. Have to sell off several players and replace with rookies and waiver wire players. Meanwhile the entire league can take advantage of you because they know your s.o.l.

That's why the league will never allow that to happen in full. They may at most have them suffer a minor recapture penalty in the 1-5 mil range but not that absurd 24 mil number.

 

[Jtown]

Now I could see the league giving Nashville a break on this one because it wasn't their intent to sign Weber to that contract. That was Philly's fault. lol

Nope. They signed him to that contract.

That contract was genius and Nashville could pay a big price to match

 

[isles55]

I get the idea, but I don't understand why the league is trying to hammer teams over one year not fulfilled. If anything, the cap penalty should be less as the player plays more years. By doing this, the league is effectively encouraging cap circumvention.

 

[Cogburn]

Preds fans have allies in Canucks fans. These penalties are entirely crap.

So....wanna start a new league with us?

 

[DXStriker]

The next CBA will probably have something to cover NSH and other teams when this happens lol or he will just invent a reason to go in LTIR lol

 

[George Clooney]

Except it was actually Philly who forced them to do this

Except, philly didnt force them. Preds management tean took the decision to match it.

 

[Diaz126025]

LOL “forced”
Like they didn’t have a choice...

Looking years ahead, Nashville’s come close but hasn’t won it, not even thanks to Weber. Should’ve called phillys bluff, but that’s a way easier option to look at now rather than then.

 

[Legionnaire11]

Preds fans have allies in Canucks fans. These penalties are entirely crap.

So....wanna start a new league with us?

We could be like the O-6 teams and rack up a bunch of meaningless championships prior to expansion

 

[General Fanager]

Except it was actually Philly who forced them to do this

LOL thay had equal opportunity to let him leave to Philly.....No one forced them to match

 

[Trap Jesus]

What are the 2026-2029 drafts looking like for depth and top end talent? Could be worth it.

Just saw a game with '29 draft hopefuls and it was a shit show. The size and skill just wasn't there and hockey sense wasn't anything to write home about either.