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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
As has been shown to you already, the only net cost of buying him out this year is the $1.5M in 21/22. Are there contracts due at that time? Of course. But there will also be young replacements on the D-corp, and also in net.
$1.5M in 2021/22, when the cap will probably be between $85 and 90M, is not a concern.
If Treliving sees an opportunity to improve the team his year, he is going to take it. And even though there is a fair amount of cap space available for a move, he would probably still want to have room to make another move as the season unfolds.
I agree that if nothing happens this summer, and they have miles of cap space, then it makes sense to let Brouwer eat popcorn and wait until next year to buy him out.
But the cost of buying him out is minimal, and gives Treliving lots of flexibility. Suggesting he sees it your way is short-sighted.
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No, I'm just extremely confident. I've already looked into this months ago, this wasn't something I just saw and responded to. I looked at our future cap situation just after the new year and it makes sense to me to wait it out another year.
I know the chances of a buyout is theoretically equal, but I also know that GMs don't like saddling themselves with dead cap space, so you might as well try to minimize the impact. Only time will tell, but I just don't see a buyout happening.