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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Not sure why you're assuming they would have bought him out. I always thought they would have kept Ribeiro or Ward and played them during the rebuild. They would have used current cap space to acquire a 1st rounder and a solid but overpaid player
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I have always wondered why everyone assumed we would buy him out, it has never made sense to me. You don't acquire a good but overpaid player just to buy them out and if he was being bought out by us, why would he bother nixing the deal? Makes no sense.
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Originally Posted by codynw
I remember hearing that Ribeiro was going to be bought out if the trade went through.
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I think people assumed that at the time thinking we could use a compliance buyout on him but he wouldn't have been eligible for one. If the plan was to just buy him out I don't think Ribeiro would have invoked his NTC