To say Scott Gomez hasn't lived up to his contract would be an understatement. (US Pre swire) Recently, a supposed NHL executive broke the silence from the league's side, albeit anonymously, via an AMA (ask me anything) se sion on Reddit. It was a very enlightening se sion that laid things out from the ownership/team side of things, something we just haven't heard much of.Whether it was actually a club executive or not, , so invest a little time and take it in.The AMA really ran the gamut, too. It had the more personal touches such as how much this anonymous executive makes per year to his thoughts on Gary Bettman (really, he's not so bad, guys!) The supposed executive was also asked e sentially about an amnesty clause: "Do you think each team will be allowed a contract buyout?"His answer was pretty clear-cut: "I don't think so, everyone knew what they were buying into." Perhaps that would explain why we have heard so little about the amnesty po sibilities in these CBA talks, because it doesn't seem like it will even happen. Maybe I'm alone in this, but I find that to be surprising. I really expected it to be part of the conversation.If you remember the lead-up to these negotiations, the idea of an amnesty clause was a popular one among fans. There were some insiders who believed it was going to be . Yet it has been conspicuously absent and doesn't seem like it is going to make an appearance. I'm a bit stumped.If the argument against an amnesty clause is as it goes above from the anonymous executive, then I'd argue it couldn't be more wrong. In the case of buying out very recent contracts, the argument would hold water. But do you really believe the Montreal Canadiens knew what they were getting when they signed Scott Gomez or the New York Rangers knew what they had coming when they signed Wade Redden? Of course not. That's not the point, though. There is a much more logical point in play that isn't being made. The owners want to see an immediate decrease in player salaries while the players want to ensure their contracts won't be rolled back. Satisfying both of these wants seems virtually impo sible to pull off simultaneously.That's where the amnesty option can come to the rescue. Or at least help matters.From a simply pragmatic standpoint, the owners could shed a good amount of money from the players immediately just by buying out one player per team -- not required, but an available option. It would require an up-front investment, but it sheds the long-term burdens. Think about it this way, using everybody's favorite whipping-boy contract as an example: The Canadiens need to drop the payroll by a few million dollars to get to a 50/50 split. So one option is to do cuts acro s the board to all the players' pay, but that's obviously not flying. Or they Killian Tillie Jersey could buy out Gomez and drop his $7,357,143 salary-cap hit from their roster immediately. Given that this is an amnesty clause, the team won't have to deal with the cap repercu sions; they get one free of charge. So pay the buy-out money, and then your overall team salary has been shed without touching anybody else's contract.If you expand this acro s the league, then you can begin to see salary being shed all over the place and reducing the players' share of the pie just like that. You get your overall salary reduction immediately without making a universal drop among player salaries.Now, why would the players actually be OK with this? The end result is e sentially that up to 30 players are going to be out of jobs as soon as the lockout is done. That doesn't seem very good for their busine s. Except it really isn't bad at all. The players who are theoretically bought out would still get paid. They wouldn't get the full value of their contracts, but they would get a sizeable amount of cash to be let out of the contracts. That's not a bad consolation prize.Further, it would be a good thing for a few of these players to be out from under those contracts that are holding them down. At this point, do you think Redden wouldn't mind having his contract disappear so he could get another shot with an NHL team instead of being stuck in AHL Hartford? I don't. He's pretty much , in fact. With his current contract, that won't happen. No team will take him on for that price.Plus, it's not like players Ja Morant Jersey who were bought out would all be out of jobs. After being dropped, they would be available to sign elsewhere for new contracts. It would basically be a second free-agency frenzy, just without the fanfare and huge list of available players. Some teams might take a flier on the bought-out players at a significantly cheaper rate. Those guys would still have jobs and would be receiving money from two teams at once. Really, it appears like a win-win. Who could be talked about in the amnesty situation? There are the obvious ones like the aforementioned Redden and Gomez, and you could be talking about a guy like Keith Ballard or Rick DiPietro, as well. In fact, of likely candidates from all 30 teams, even if it's unlikely every team would use the option if it existed. There are definitely some useful players on that list.Throughout this entire CBA proce s, it really has seemed like the NHL negotiations were mirroring those of the NBA a year ago when the league struck a deal at midnight before the entire season was canceled. The fight was pretty much the same; the owners wanted to decrease the percentage of revenue the players received, and they eventually did. There were no salary rollbacks, but there was an amnesty clause.The absence of an amnesty doesn't seem to make a ton of sense. Not only does a certain NHL executive not think it's going to happen, but it hasn't been mentioned once in reports from the negotiations. The NHL, which released its entire offer to the players the last time, made no mention of a one-time buyout option. In this lockout where everything is or should be at least considered, the amnesty's absence is surprising. It would behoove everybody to at least consider life with a buyout option. It would seem to help everybody get to where they want to be.
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