The first step...
Sep. 16th, 2008 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ocnativeThe Ducks placed Mathieu Schneider on waivers Tuesday in the latest chapter of a summer-long episode to move the veteran defenseman.
The team has been trying to trade Schneider, who is due $5.625 million this season, to get under the NHL’s 2008 salary cap and free up money to sign Teemu Selanne. (HAPPY DANCE!!!!!!)
Schneider signed a two-year, $11.25 million deal with the Ducks last summer but became expendable when Scott Niedermayer later returned to the team and decided to play this season as well.
Schneider, 39, had 12 goals and 27 assists with a plus-22 rating in 65 games in 2007-08.
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I KNOW this sucks ass for Schneider fans, but hopefully the Kings will pick him up and we have to get under that cap anyways.
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Date: 2008-09-16 08:58 pm (UTC)