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Originally Posted by Bingo
Weren't the amnesty buy outs before 2014?
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You are correct, sir.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...ut-candidates/
The last time the National Hockey League endured such a severe interruption of action and the inevitable economic sucker-punch that goes with it the general managers were granted a get-out-of-jail-free card. Two of them, in fact.
In the summer that followed the 2012-13 lockout and truncated season, the players and governors agreed that each club would be permitted two compliance buyouts to help free up salary-cap space in the face of a stagnant cap ceiling. These could be used in the summer of 2013 and/or the summer of 2014, as the cap ceiling waited two seasons to resume its upward trajectory.