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Originally Posted by Blaupunkt69

they have the cap room to get kovy without moving kaberle. At first I was against the idea of savard as a leaf because of his age, recent injuries, and long contract but it seems his contract is front loaded so his cap hit won't be so bad in the later years and the asking price for him is way down and wouldn't require kaberle. boston needs to reduce their cap so they might not get much in return for savard especially since savard has only named 2 teams he would want to go to - the sens and the leafs. after july 1st it grows to 5 teams - the leafs, sens, flyers, hawks, and sabres. The sens can't get him unless they move spezza, the flyers and hawks can't take on his salary with the cap, and the bruins would be less inclined to help out a stronger division rival in the sabres. This means the leafs have best chance to get him. Like the sabres, the bruins wouldn't want to help the leafs considering they hold their 1st round pick in next years draft but they are likely content they got the 2nd overall pick this year and are willing to let this other 1st round selection slide a bit.

Cap hit remains the same.

It just means the team pays the player more during his early years as opposed to the later years.