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Originally Posted by arsmaster
So if he retires after 2017-2018 (last year at 6.7), there would be 4 years left on the deal that would count against Vancouver's cap.
In my head, I believe he'd be owed $7 million over the last 4 years of the deal. Vancouver in a sense 'owns his contract' so they could buy it out for 2/3's of $7 million ($4.7m) and spread that over 4 years ($1.1725 cap hit for those 4 years, since they took away the buyout period being spread out over twice the amount of years).
Does that make sense?
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The problem is, there is so little actual info released yet...but yes, this kind of summer buyout near the end of his career would leave us with a cap hit that would be insignificant against a projected cap number.