The rest of the release:

Aucoin, 31, currently leads the American Hockey League (AHL) in scoring with 84 points, posting 31 goals (a career high) and 53 assists for the Hershey Bears. Aucoin helped lead the Bears to the Calder Cup last season while finishing second in the AHL scoring race to linemate Alexandre Giroux with 96 points (25 goals, 71 assists).

Aucoin, a 5’9", 162-pound native of Waltham, Mass., has played 21 games for the Capitals in the last two seasons, recording three goals and eight assists. He had a goal and four assists in nine games for Washington earlier this season. The Capitals first signed Aucoin as a free agent July 3, 2008.

Very interesting. With so much uncertainty about the 2C/3C positions next season with BMo and Belanger as UFA’s, i guess the caps will have Aucoin as a fallback option.

Does this put us at 48 contracts?

Ok so GMGM is starting the resignings with the “A’s”
Now lets move on to “B”, particularly Backstrom!

I assume its a 2 way deal. He can do a great job teaching the young centers the Caps have that will be most likely be coming through Hershey in the next couple of years like Macken, Angus, Broda. In a pinch he can be called up and won’t look out of place on an NHL sheet of ice.

Interesting that Aucoin chose to re-up rather than seeing if there’s a NHL team willing to give him a shot. Unless the fact that he cleared waivers at the beginning of the season was enough of a signal.

It’s hard to believe that no NHL team wants to give him a full time chance? I mean scoring 84 pts, even if it’s the ahl, has to give you some kind of shot in the big clubs.

were going to make you google this publically available salary information.

good for keith. hopefully next year he will have something in common w/ quentin laing and tyler sloan.

Players on two-way contracts may be exempt from re-entry waivers (recalled from AHL to NHL) depending upon their AHL salary, and the number of professional-level games played previously.

Any player signed to a two-way standard player contract (SPC), whose waiver exemption provided under terms of their first SPC no longer applies, is exempt from re-entry waivers if the following conditions have been met:

•The player’s AHL salary is less than $105,000
•The player appeared in less than 40 NHL games the previous season, including playoffs
•The player appeared in less than 80 NHL games the previous two seasons, including playoffs
•If the player is a goaltender, he has played in less than 180 professional (NHL/AHL/ECHL) games in his career, including playoffs
•If the player is a forward or defenseman, he has played in less than 320 professional (NHL/AHL/ECHL) games, including playoffs

Wrong center!

I mean, this was a pressing matter.