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Originally Posted by sureLoss
Yes Lucic's contract is "buy-out proof".
This is essentially because all signing bonuses are paid to the player regardless of a buyout and therefore decreases the cap savings that buying out the contract usually provides.
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That is correct.
Instead of saving $10,000,000 of the $30,000,000 cap remaining on his contract, they would only save about $3,666,000 on his contract if they bought him out.
The only real motivation in buying him out would be to spread the cap hit over 10 years instead of 5 right now.
He is owed $26,000,000, but $15,000,000 is bonus, so the buyout is based on the remaining $11,000,000 of salary owing.
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