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Originally Posted by Ashasx
Well I'm not exactly sure about that. Buyouts save the team 1/3 of the remaining salary to be paid (assuming none of it is paid in signing bonuses) so it effectively saves the team money on that player.
You can say that the team will then just go out and sign another player for the cap that is saved. That would be correct, but they still have to operate within the salary cap.
Retaining salary effectively allows teams to buy cap space. Buyouts do not do that.
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You shouldn't assume that with buyouts that Calgary will still spend up the salary cap, as the actual dollars spent does matter to Calgary.
One of the reasons why the Lucic deal was done by Calgary was it saved a lot of actual dollars, which allowed Calagry to spend to the cap that year.