[YyjFlames]

Originally Posted by blankall

The thing is it's not..In his last year, if you buy him out, you're still paying $6.833 million. At those numbers, unless he's totally useless, you gain more having him on the roster than buying him out and paying for a replacement.

If you buy him out with 2 years left, you actually add cap in the second last year and then save about $4.4 million in the last year.

If you buy out with 3 years left, the cap savings become:
$2,388,889
$-111,111
$4,388,889
$-1,111,111
$-1,111,111
$-1,111,111

That's horrendously bad for a buyout. How do you sell the owners paying out over $20 million to do that?

Ugh. What a bad deal. You can really see the desperation that Treleving felt... and the agent capitalizing.

Huberdeau deserves all the criticism he gets with signing a deal like that and underperforming so badly in the first couple years.