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Originally Posted by Robbob
I guess it depends on the rules for the buy out. I would consider buying out kipper at 1m and then signing him to a 2.5 million one year. Lowers his cap by almost 3 million and effectively the buy out would be additional salary not on the cap. I would rather use the allocated buyout to keep a player I wanted happy then wasting it on Stajan, who I would try to farm out to a team in Russia if I couldn't trade him for a bug of pucks.
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Highly unlikely that they would allow teams to buy a guy out and then immediately re-sign him - pure cap circumvention, which the league has shown quite difinitively that they don't want to see.