ok we had our fun there is not gonna be a compliance buyout

If the cap is reduced, player contracts will reduced? That’s not happening lol

If the cap doesn’t go up, a compliance buyout makes sense and it would help plenty of teams.

NHLPA will not agree to lower contracts

Its happened before. Why can't they do it again. If you reduce the salary cap by 11%, you can reduce player salaries by 11%.
It just doesn't make sense and what other options does the league have if their losing money

I disagree with your characterization of "plenty." A buyout would ensconce Tampa Bay at the top of the Eastern Conference for the next 4 or 5 years (because they could use one and trade one) and help a few teams: Vancouver (Eriksson), Calgary (Lucic), Edmonton (Neal), Minnesota (Rask), Montreal (Alzner), the Islanders (Boychuk), Buffalo (Okposo), San Jose (take your pick) and maybe the Rangers (Smith, or Lundqvist if they want him to go), Winnipeg (Little?) and Columbus (Dubinsky?). That's fewer than half the teams in the League. A buyout would have little or no benefit for the other teams except indirectly (i.e., if they could accept a buyout candidate from another team, but there aren't many teams who have TWO buyout candidates).

The NHLPA is either going to give buyouts, raise the cap slightly .1 maybe or will have to re negotiate to prevent a lockout cause with this pandemic whatever was agreed to in the past is probably void now