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[Speculation] Possibility Of Justin Schultz Signing With Vancouver


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Gonna be extremely tough to prove. All the rumoured destinations for Schultz had player ties with his teammates (except for Edmonton). Burke has Gardiner, Sather has McDonagh & Stepan, Holland has Patrick Eaves (son of Wisconsin's head coach), Gillis has LaBate. Anything that would constitute tampering would've been a discreet in person meeting between Schultz and the "liaison" which would leave no paper/electronic trail.

As for alerting Schultz to the loophole, any "family advisor" (*cough* agent *cough*) worth his salt would already be well-rehearsed with this particular nuance of the CBA and would be letting his client's family more than aware of this option (hence why Schultz is exercising said option).

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"Of course, if the Canucks do land Schultz, there may be some downside. It is rumoured that the second Schultz is signed, the Ducks will file tampering charges against whichever team acquires him. As Elliotte Friedman wrote about a tampering investigation, in his indispensable thirty thoughts column today: "It's a tough process. You're obligated to hand over whatever correspondence the NHL desires.""

I'm probably just being naive, but why would signing Schultz be considered 'tampering'?

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Um, Schultz's base salary will be $925k-$950k and the bonus incentives portion ($2.8m) can exceed the salary cap ceiling because of this thing called the "bonus cushion". You don't think the Canucks could squeeze in Salo's $2.5m and Schultz's base salary ($925k), a total of $3.45m, under a $70m cap ceiling? If Schultz were to hit all his bonuses and the Canucks were over the $70m cap ceiling, that $2.8m can deferred onto the 2013-2014 season's cap at which point Salo is probably retiring anyway (thereby freeing up $2.5m of that $2.8m owed to Schultz).

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i am not talking about Salary wise...where the hell will he play

Hamhuis - Bieksa

Edler - Schultz

Ballard - Tanev

Tanev will play a full season, Schultz according to many scouts will push for a top 4 position this coming up season, if not, switch tanev schultz around.........

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Will depend on how his shot develops this summer. He needs a better shot to be a top 4 guy. If his shot hasnt improved and we re-sign Salo, I could see him starting the year with Chicago and being paired with Connauton again. And we'd have Salo and someone(Cody Franson maybe?) rotating in as 6/7 and Alberts as our 8th dman.

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Will depend on how his shot develops this summer. He needs a better shot to be a top 4 guy. If his shot hasnt improved and we re-sign Salo, I could see him starting the year with Chicago and being paired with Connauton again. And we'd have Salo and someone(Cody Franson maybe?) rotating in as 6/7 and Alberts as our 8th dman.

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