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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Yep. Well worth this effort for them as they are reducing the cap hit from buying him out. So I guess teams now have a possible out for some of these long deals. Just hope for the player to have some sort of off ice issues then self declare they have terminated the deal and smear the player enough where they have to settle with the team to save some face. Well done Lombardi.
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This was the point of my post (that at least one person missed entirely).
Now teams can use "material breach" as an excuse to get out of a contract for at least less than a buyout.
I say - you hire the player flaws and all. Sure you can terminate him, but you take the cap hit.