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Originally Posted by savemedrzaius
I'm guessing the Leafs put Murray on LTIR for the whole season. They probably say to him you either go on LTIR for the whole year and get your full paycheck, or we buy you out and you get a small percentage of what you are owed. No matter what his next contract is going to be a one year deal at league min, so do you want to first stay home and get healthy with big money, or sign a league min deal for the upcoming season and lose 4 million.
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I'd call that bluff and tell them to go ahead and buy me out. Unless I'm mistaken escrow doesn't apply to buyouts. Right now Murray is set to make 8M in salary this year, after escrow that would be what? 6.5-7M? something like that. If they buy him out he gets 5.333M over 2 years and he becomes a free agent, pretty sure he would get signed by someone, he might even come out ahead. It's certainly not a "small percentage" and it's not even close to losing 4M.