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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Forget Patrick Marleau costing a 1st with 1 year left? I guess the buyout implication was a factor there
Based on what you are saying it should be a breeze to ship out Lucic and/or Monahan on Seattle?
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Marleau is a special case. Only willing to waive in order to be bought out. His buyout costing almost 4M in actual money (with a 3M signing bonus that had to be paid within days of trading for him) and because he was +35, also a 6M cap hit. Super poison pill.
Teams with cap but internal budgets, it didn't make sense because it was 4M in actual money.
Teams with unlimited budgets, it didn't make sense because they would use the 6M cap on useful players.
Carolina had Toronto by the balls.
Lucic, if he waived, would be making less than a league minimum player. Teams like Coyotes would love him over some other league minimum player because they don't care about the cap right now.