BlueWhiteBlood
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Just starting this thread for the inevitable flood of waiver wire action. At this time of the season, it will lead to several buyouts.
Mirtle has a good piece here, with a tidbit about how the cap might go even higher.
Along the way, there?ll be a lot of trade talk, too.
This busy section of the news cycle gets underway in earnest early Monday morning when the NHL?s compliance buyout window opens. This is one of the last remnants of the lockout, where every team was given two get out of jail free cards in the form of penalty-free buyouts to be used in the summer of 2013 or 2014.
Last year, there were 16, including enormous buyouts of Vinny Lecavalier, Rick DiPietro, Ilya Bryzgalov and Mikhail Grabovski.
Four teams ? Chicago, Montreal, Philadelphia and Toronto ? have already used both of theirs, while 10 others have only used one. That leaves 42 potential buyouts, although there are realistically only about a dozen candidates.
Some of them are slam dunks.
The Buffalo Sabres will nuke the last three years (at $4.5-million apiece) of Ville Leino?s truly awful contract. The New York Rangers really can?t afford to keep Brad Richards around at what he?s making and with the cap recapture penalties looming down the road.
Others around the league like Martin Havlat, Jordin Tootoo and Ryan Malone (whose situation is complicated by his substance abuse issues) are likely candidates as well.
Mirtle has a good piece here, with a tidbit about how the cap might go even higher.
Along the way, there?ll be a lot of trade talk, too.
This busy section of the news cycle gets underway in earnest early Monday morning when the NHL?s compliance buyout window opens. This is one of the last remnants of the lockout, where every team was given two get out of jail free cards in the form of penalty-free buyouts to be used in the summer of 2013 or 2014.
Last year, there were 16, including enormous buyouts of Vinny Lecavalier, Rick DiPietro, Ilya Bryzgalov and Mikhail Grabovski.
Four teams ? Chicago, Montreal, Philadelphia and Toronto ? have already used both of theirs, while 10 others have only used one. That leaves 42 potential buyouts, although there are realistically only about a dozen candidates.
Some of them are slam dunks.
The Buffalo Sabres will nuke the last three years (at $4.5-million apiece) of Ville Leino?s truly awful contract. The New York Rangers really can?t afford to keep Brad Richards around at what he?s making and with the cap recapture penalties looming down the road.
Others around the league like Martin Havlat, Jordin Tootoo and Ryan Malone (whose situation is complicated by his substance abuse issues) are likely candidates as well.
