NHL will Allow Teams Two Contract Buyouts for '13-'14. Who are yours?

[Mr. White]

For the people who already wanna get rid of Booth We've only had the guy for one year...

[Alchemy Time]

I would buy out Ballard and Raymond/Malholtra.

[Dirt Nasty]

If Vancouver bought out Booth who would we have playing on the second line besides Kesler?! Buyout Ballard and either Raymond or Malhotra. Thats 6mil gone already, then trade Luongo for Prospects + picks.

[John.Tallhouse]

Ballard,Kassian

[Xbox]

Here is my list:

Anaheim: NA

Boston: Savard and Thomas

Buffalo: Leino and Sekera

Calgary: Stajan and (Stempniak?)

Carolina: NA

Chicago:Hjalmarsson and Hossa (IF The concussion ruined him)

Colorado:Hejda

CBJ: Tyutin

Dallas: NA

Detroit: Ericsson

Edmonton: Horcoff

Florida: Upshall and Kopecky

LA Kings: NA

Minnesota: Heatley

Montreal: Gomez and Kaberle

Nashville: NA

New Jersey: Volchenkov

NYI: DiPietro and possibly Grabner

NYR: Redden and Boyle

Ottawa: NA

Philadelphia: Pronger

Phoenix: (Michalek and Vrbata?)

Pittsburgh: NA

San Jose: Havlat

St. Louis: Jackman

Tampa Bay: Lecavalier and Ohlund

Toronto: Komisarek (All other contracts would expire)

Vancouver: Ballard and Luongo

Washington: Ward

Winnipeg: NA

[Lockhart]

How dumb are people to think that Lu should be bought out? Ever heard of trading a player......

[dorrcoq]

Agreeing to have the buyout count again the players' share is ridiculous. Once again the owners dumping the blame for their collective stupidity onto the players. Which come to think of it, is the whole crux of this lockout.

[dorrcoq]

How dumb are people to think that Lu should be bought out? Ever heard of trading a player......

[sharnhayre]

Trade Luongo for roster player and prospects, buy out Ballard and either Raymond or Malhotra.

[Xbox]

How dumb are people to think that Lu should be bought out? Ever heard of trading a player......

[bim bo]

Hmm, maybe a loophole there - Sign a player to an expensive extension, then buy him out and sign him to a cheaper, cap-friendly contract.

[Alchemy Time]

Actually, I think the only people I would buy out would be Ballard and Raymond, because of who the other teams are likely to buy out.

Say Edmonton buys out Hemsky, Philly buys out Briere, or SJ buys out Havlat, then we buy out Raymond and Ballard, then sign Hemsky, Havlat, or Briere for 4 million and put them on the 2nd line with Booth and Kesler.

Daniel-Henrik-Burrows

Booth-Kesler-Hemsky/Havlat/Briere

Higgins-Lapierre-Hansen/Kassian

Weise-Malholtra-Kassian/Hansen

Edler-Garrison

Hamhuis-Bieksa

Corrado-Tanev

If Tampa buys out Ohlund or Toronto buys out Komisarek, along with Ward being bought out by Washington, then we sign one of Ohlund or Komisarek for 2 million, and then sign Ward for 1.5 million.

Daniel-Henrik-Burrows

Booth-Kesler-Kassian

Higgins-Lapierre-Hansen

Weise-Malholtra-Ward

Edler-Garrison

Hamhuis-Bieksa

Ohlund/Komisarek-Tanev

[Alchemy Time]

Hmm, maybe a loophole there - Sign a player to an expensive extension, then buy him out and sign him to a cheaper, cap-friendly contract.

[TOMapleLaughs]

It wasn't immediately clear you meant only us, as evidenced by the first reply being Heatley. My point stands in that there it's pretty obvious there are 2-3 guys we'd buy out and that it's already been covered in the CBA thread (and the Luongo buyout thread - thanks, forgot about that one).

[shazzam]

If I'm reading this correctly, the buyouts are for 13-14 season which is next season. For those that suggested Raymond and Manny, both are only signed for this season and are UFAs after.

[shazzam]

If there is a season this year, Luongo needs to be traded. I'm not sure if the owners will allow the buyout of Luongo, that is alot of money.

[elvis15]

Ballard is the obvious choice. After that Malhotra or Booth, but I'd wait to see what they can do first.

[c00kies]

If we trade Luongo to Toronto, it could be interesting. Say we acquire Komisarek in the deal, as a means of picking up their crap to boost the return, and then use the buyouts on Ballard and Komisarek. Could that be worth it? I know we have a couple candidates for the 2nd buyout, but if we could improve the gain in a trade, I think it'd be worth holding on to a guy like Malhotra.

[Noheart]

How dumb are people to think that Lu should be bought out? Ever heard of trading a player......

[kazin!]

My question is, who would trade for Luongo now? They know the Canucks probably won't continue with both Lu and Schneider so why wouldn't they just wait until the Canucks are forced to buy him out? Then they can sign him without mortgaging the future.