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Originally Posted by bigrangy
I'm suprised Tre didn't qualify one of the arbitration-eligible RFA's just to open up the second buyout window. I'm not sure exactly how that works though.
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There are restrictions on opening that second buyout window.
You have a 48 hour window that starts three days after your last arbitration case is settled (either by a negotiated contract or by the arbitrator's ruling) to make any secondary buyouts. If I'm reading the CBA correctly, the one situation where the second window doesn't open is if a team's only arbitration case was elected by the club for the purpose of reducing the player's salary from his previous contract.
The problem for the Flames with Raymond's deal is that contracts bought out during the second window have to have an AAV greater than $2.75 million relative to the changes in the average player's salary since the CBA was signed.
The $2.75 million number is the required salary for the 2012-13 season. It is adjusted to match the year-over-year percentage increase in the average league salary. I don't know how the average salary has risen since 2012-13, but if it has gone up the same percentage as the cap, it would put the minimum salary for the second buyout window over $3.2 million -- which would make Raymond's salary ineligible for a buyout during a second window.