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Originally Posted by New Era
Seems a waste of a compliance buyout. This tells me the Flames will not be involved in any deals where they eat other team's mistakes for extra assets. If ownership can't stomach burying SOB in the minors for another year at $2M then they sure won't assume long term payouts for players from other teams.
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Among the other reasons given, you can only dress so many veteran players in the AHL. It may not matter since Adirondack is likely to be a young team as well, but why risk handcuffing yourself on a guy who clearly isn't in your plans?