The normal buyout window starts June 15th or 48 hours after the Stanley Cup is awarded (whichever is later). It ends 5pm June 30th.
There is a secondary buyout window that exists if a team goes to salary arbitration. It opens 3 days after a team's last salary arbitration case is settled or awarded and ends after 48 hours. For this buyout window a player must be on the team's reserve list as of the previous trade deadline and must have a minimum AAV of I believe $3 million. Using this secondary buyout window can only be done 3 times by a team over the length of this current CBA.
This of course assumes no changes are made to the buyout rules for the expansion draft, which if the NHL and NHLPA agree to might happen.
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