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Originally Posted by Bingo
Yes and no.
A two way contract under $1M would save them some actual dollars as he'd have an AHL salary paying quite a bit less, but it's really not that important in this case as;
a) he'd have to clear waivers
b) at under $1M he wouldn't effect the cap if sent down.
The two way thing would be the wrong hill to die on for the agent in this case.
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You're focusing too much from the team's position and not from Kulak's perspective. To the point you're missing the actual point of a contract. A player like Kulak doesn't care about cap-hit, he wants money.
So how is the two-way thing the wrong hill to die on? It could be the difference between Kulak making ~800-1M and making ~100K-200K if he were to be sent down. We're talking of upwards of 10x the difference. It was the only hill to die on for his agent. Everything else is so secondary compared to the one-way contract.
And contract or no contract, he did just clear waivers so it's not like he can be sure he wouldn't again...