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Originally Posted by GioforPM
But if you buy Monahan out, while you are adding dead cap you are also subtracting the rest of his contract. If you replaced him with around league minimum or a little more, you are adding $3M but saving $3.5 after that.
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There is more of a reluctance for the Flames to buy out contracts these days and then spend to the cap (with spending more on actual dollars than cap). It was one of the reasons why the Lucic/Neal was so palatable to them at the time, as it saved quite a bit of actual dollars.