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Originally Posted by getbak
I think we go through this every year and I always forget what the rules are. I believe because they're buying the player out, they only need to put him on waivers on the day of the buyout deadline. Even though he won't have cleared waivers yet when the deadline passes, they can still notify the league that the player will no longer be their property as of noon ET on Wednesday.
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Also if a player on the team elects for arbitration I think it opens an additional buy-out window later on in the summer.
So if a team wanted to wait and see how their cap situation is later in the summer they just need a player to select arbitration. I think it'd be easy to get a borderline player to do that just by offering a one way deal or a generous AHL salary.