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Originally Posted by Toonage
Someone picking him up would pretty much be ensuring they are paying him the max amount. Not only would Treliving's plan to devalue the player backfire but it would do so to the detriment of the team picking him up. That team still has to go through the hearing and loses any leverage. So unless they want Brett Kulak at $1M or so for 2 years he'll clear.
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IMO at least one team with roster and salary flexibility looking for shoring up their roster with a solid left side Dman - Toronto, Buffalo, Montreal, Vancouver, L.A., NYI, NYR, NJD, WPG - is willing to pay the $75-300K over the max buryable salary to take that flyer. This isn't an arbitration case where Kulak could expect huge salary even if he won due to his ATOI. At this point Kulak's biggest leverage over a team is that he has upside that was underutilized last year - which is virtually inadmissable in arbitration.