[thesloppy]

I don't believe the salary cap is an impedement for most teams in 99% of situations, unless you handle it extremely poorly with the majority of your contracts over multiple years...I think there are contracts that are built with over-inflated years that are never meant to be paid, but that's an entierly different issue. When players with relatively sane contracts are released for supposed salary cap reasons in this day and age I always assume that's just being used as coverage rather than citing the personal reasons. I don't consider any rookie contracts signifcant.