Speculation: Buyout candidates for 2022?
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Team Cozens
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Maybe Bjork from the Sabres. Any talk of Skinner or Okposo buyouts has ended with their improved play on top of the fact Buffalo needs to hit the cap floor.
Djp
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Buffalo, Detroit and Anaheim are not taking cap dumps.
trades could still happen where they take higher salaried players fir lower salaried players. They are not taking on pure Anchors.
For example Buffalo needs to get to the floor next year so they might be a broker on a 1 yr to UFA trade when they do pass thru retains. They could do something like trade Bjork for a player making $4M+ with 1-2 yrs left.
buffalo will have contracts due starting this year with RFAs
2022 Olofsson ( 1 yr to UFA)
2023 Thompson, Cozens
2024 Mittlestadt, Krebs, Dahlin, Jokiharju, D Power/Johnson or G Levi/ Portillo college players signed and they burn yr 1 this yr
the salary gain on current cap hits could easily exceed an additional $15M on current cap/ max ELC. Then they have other Players coming up. They need cap flexibility
Djp
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You will not see buyouts on players playing $1M or less. They can be sent to A or sit in the press box each night.
Murray would be pricey. Can't the Sens just LTIR him the rest of the way or would there be serious cap implications for that?
Myers will be traded to a cap team first before being bought out. He had a negative cap for next season at -616k and then just 633k the year after.
BrindamoursNose
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Djp
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how? The buyout window is before fre agency. You can’t try him out. Nashville clearly buys him out when the window opens and he is signed by another team at a more reasonable contract. His buy out cap hit in 23/24 is around $650K. I don’t recall what the cap hit will be for 22/23. $650K is nothing to worry about for nashville.
Djp
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The rules have likeky changed on teams acquiring someone just to buy them out. You can’t buy out injured players. Weber I think Weber and a few other players have the low final years contracts left in the league. Keith is another.
WhatTheDuck
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Unfortunately I could see this or LTIRetirement as a possibility for Jakob Silfverberg moving forward. He's had a terrible run of luck with injuries and ailments that seem to have piled up on him quite quickly. Soldiered through a bad hip problem for quite some time before getting surgery, now he's out with a blood clot issue.
Two years remaining at a $5,250,000, which if bought out would result in a cap hit of 1,750,000 x 4 years.
Two years remaining at a $5,250,000, which if bought out would result in a cap hit of 1,750,000 x 4 years.
Mr Positive
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Mike Smith should be an easy one to get away with LTIR as long as Holland has any ability to do something creative or talk a player into doing the right thing for the team
Oh wait nevermind it's Holland. Carry on
Djp
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it depends on player/ position and salary. a big difference if salary> cap hit vs if it’s lower. There are other factors such as player character and locker room problem. Other issue us what’s added to take such a contract as a favor.
there are going to be 20+ teams with cap space issues who probably want to move salary. Teams like buddalo/ Detroit will look at quality of the player.
I think he can be traded while retaining half salary. This way you limit exposure to 1 year......
A team like Vegas, Toronto, Tampa maybe Edmonton who are looking for a little more capspace might offer Nashville a 6th for his contract. They get a cap savings of 613k next year which can help them be cap compliant. Then get a 633k penalty the following year. Minnesota and Florida as well to offset the massive dead cap they will have next year. No team is trading for him to play.
Flyer lurker
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This is most likely scenario. take back 1 year 4m guy who stinks or retain 33-50% of JVR's salary, etc. But JVR buyout is possible.
why would you buy him out and pay him for 2 years when you could bury his entire contract next/ year?
it makes no sense
The Mighty Duck Man
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I actually don't see either of those things happening, definitely not this year anyway. Ducks should be fine reaching the floor but it gets a lot harder with anything done with Silf. Even moving Shattenkirk is tough because even though he's redundant they might need his cap hit.
