Read: Moving The Cap Down To $60 Million/Not Allowing Buyouts
Till Next Year Will Hurt The Rangers  In the NY Post, Larry
Brooks writes that with some of the new rules and regulations
that the NHL is proposing for the CBA will have big impact on
how the Rangers construct their team.  Wade Redden’s cap hit
will stay with the team even if he is sent to the minors, which
is all but certain to happen unless he is claimed on waivers,
and will leave them around $5 million or so in the transitional
cap to fill out the rest of the team.  Redden’s cap hit will be
$5.85 million, instead of $6.5 million, because the league
proposal asks for  the cap hit to be the difference between the
players cap hit and the proposed minimum salary of $625,000.
Brooks writes that it is unnecessary for the league to make
teams wait until June to use the compliance buyout as if a
player they plan to buy out is seriously injured and thus made
ineligible to be bought out.  Bruce Garrioch, in the Ottawa Sun,
spoke with an executive who sai