If they can't trade him then they will buy him out before the expansion draft.
Buyout would be 4M, 5.5M, 500k, 500k. Save 2M in cap space the first year, 500k the 2nd, and the two remaining years are nothing if it gets rid of that contract and frees up a protection slot.
The best thing in this more likely scenario, is that it means 2 more seasons of Lucic.
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