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Originally Posted by opendoor
Poor Arizona. Now they lose one of their salary retention spots for the next 8 years instead of just 4.
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Actually sounds like it's the opposite and they gain the spot back.
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Answer. Once a player is bought out, the retained cap hit is converted to a buy-out cap hit for the player that was traded/bought-out, and it no longer counts as one of the team's 3 permitted active retained transactions.
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https://puckpedia.com/salary-cap/ans...20transactions.
So Canucks do Arizona a favor here too.