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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
I was just going to say, can't they just wait and buy them out before they retire? Sort of a gentlemans agreement between the player and the team? What prevents this?
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The buyout results in retaining the cap.
If the wings buyout Zetterberg June15 2018 when he is 37 they are left with a cap hit and no Zetterberg in the line-up for 6 years
from capgeek
2018-19: $3,327,778
2019-20: $5,677,778
2020-21: $5,677,778
2021-22: $594,444
2022-23: $594,444
2023-24: $594,444
The plan was to have zetterberg retire at 37 and come off the Wings books after getting paid a pile more money than allowed under the cap.