I know I'm being silly here, but out of curiosity I wanted to see what it would look like to buy out Huberdeau....
It's not good. His contract is almost ALL signing bonuses. Like, for example, his NHL salary this season is only 3.5M. The other 7M he's getting this season is a sining bonus. The whole contract is structured like that. 1st, 2nd and 5th years of the contract are all the same: 3.5M salary, 7M sining bonus. The 3rd, 4th and 6th years are even worse: 1M salary, 9.5M signing bonus. The final year is 5.5M salary, 5M signing bonus.
Like, not only is he untradable becuase of his cap hit and lacklustre play... we can't even buy him out, since signing bonuses are just pure cap hit with no reduction.
https://www.capfriendly.com/buyout-c...than-huberdeau
Like I said, I know this is silly to even look at, so don't come at me with "lol what a loser, he's literally trying to buyout Huberdeau 7 games into his contract" posts. I was just curious.