Personally I'm hoping they can just ride out all the bad contracts. It would suck to have to carry over any buy out penalties next year.
I'm really hoping that BT can pull off some miracle salary retention trades so he has a bit more room to improve the roster while shedding some dead weight. Not likely, but I'm hoping.
Going to be quite disappointed if Wideman is still here in the fall though. And yeah, if expansion draft rules dictate he needs to be protected, then he needs to be bought out if he can't be traded.
All else being equal, if they can't trade anyone, and absoluetly need cap space to improve the roster, my order for buying out the above player would be:
Smid
Raymond
Stajan
Wideman
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