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Coyotes' Acquisition Of Bolland Adds Another High-Priced Player Who Likely Will Never Play

The Coyotes next season will be paying a total of $11.575M for a "trio of players who may never play a game for them," according to Ken Warren of the OTTAWA CITIZEN. The team on Thursday as part of a trade with the Panthers acquired "injured and vastly overpaid" C David Bolland, who has three years and $16.5M "remaining on his contract." That means Bolland is one of the team's "highest paid forwards" along with Pavel Datsyuk, whose contract was traded to the Coyotes from the Red Wings after he signed to play in the KHL this season. The Coyotes "also boast the salary of the long ago retired" D Chris Pronger, who owns a salary-cap hit just shy of $5M next season. Being able to unload Bolland as part of the trade "is a huge bonus" for the Panthers, giving them "more salary cap room to add a free agent or two before the season starts." The Coyotes and Panthers are playing "within the rules and they’re hardly the first teams to use the salary cap system to wash each other’s backs." It is "all part of the business and there will be more of the same as sharp general managers continue to search for intriguing solutions to their problems." But Warren writes, "We’re guessing it’s not exactly what [NHL Commissioner] Gary Bettman had in mind when he talked about competitive balance after the current CBA was signed" (OTTAWA CITIZEN, 8/26). 

MAKING STRIDES: In Phoenix, Paola Boivin in a front-page piece notes the Coyotes' move to make Dawn Braid the "first full-time female coach in NHL history" is the latest sign it is a "great time to be a fan of Valley teams." Braid’s hiring followed the NFL Cardinals’ move last year to make Jen Welter the "first woman to hold a coaching position in the NFL." Justine Siegal last October was a guest instructor for the A's instructional league team in Phoenix, becoming the "first woman to coach in big-league history" (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 8/26). 

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