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Everything that i have found says that he has retired from the NHL but only that his contract remains because of the cap hit. Its really a 50/50 in this case. With that said, i have always been a fan of no cap relief on retirement, if you are going to sign a 36year old to a 4 year contract, deal with it. ha ha.
I'm inclined to change the rule to treat players leaving for the KHL the same as retired players. It's kinda hard to arbitrate this retirement thing.
I just want to find something concrete that says he signed retirement papers. Maybe he needed to wait to sign paperwork until after the trade.And I just signed Anderson to a four year deal and the only reason I did that was because we have extension contract minimum years and retirement cap relief.
This is updated to the Lecavalier retirement - not sure what their source is for this in particular:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_NHL_transactions#Retirement