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Originally Posted by Poe969
With Stajan, Versteeg, Jagr, the Mason Raymond buyout coming off the books, and possibly a Brouwer buyout, this team could fill holes with prospects and have a large budget left to re-sign Backlund and still add a good player if they want.
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I don't know how much room they'll have to add a good player. For a year perhaps, but after that Tkachuks contract isn't going to come cheap.
The potential Brouwer buyout will help. Just to make sure I understand this correctly:
Brouwer is getting $4.5million/year each of the next two years for a total of $9million owed
He's over 26 so take 2/3rds of that, $6million owed
Double the length and you've got a cap hit of $1.5million/year for 4 seasons
Correct?
I don't see a situation where they don't buy him out this offseason. $3 million/year in space easily pays for his replacement and then some.