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Originally Posted by Royle9
Paying him full salary to play in the AHL wont happen, so the choice is keep him on the roster paying him 2nd/3rd line minutes to toll your 4th line at best. Or the Flames think he will turn it around and they award him with top 6 playing time and significant PP time in hopes he produces.
Or you buy him out, take the 1.5M cap hit for 4 years and use the 3M in savings to go out and get someone else who can produce.
Tough call for sure, not sure I agree with keeping him around myself however.
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I don't see how paying him to play in the AHL is completely out of the question. If someone outplays him in camp and he doesn't make the team, without anywhere else, he would be playing in Stockton. The samething already happened to Mason Raymond, Brandon Bollig and etc, so it's not unprecedented.
But like I said, if need be. But the more likely scenario is that he once again makes the team and plays as a utility player on the bottom 2 lines and maybe sits a few games out.
Ultimately though, Brad will set himself up for the future and it would be smart to eat the contract for 18-19 with the generous amount of cap space we'll have and clear his contract fully when we need it most down the road.