Also another option is let Lucic play one year out in St, Louis. If hes trash buy him out and you save 1 extra year of 600k and if he returns to a 6 million dollar player (lol) then good for him.

Swap Bouchard for Jones or Bear

They won’t trade Bouchard, but I could see 2 first rounders if we take Lucic and trade Schenn. With the Oilers you’ll never know where the picks will be.

Why though? Buying out a player will last 8 years, thats a huge price to pay and you get a top 6 player

This is an interesting take. Would love to see the Blues get a first and Bouchard. That Lucic contract will go down in the annals of NHL history with the Rick DiPietro contract.

I would want Tarasenko for that package not Schenn

Lucic isn't waiving his MNC just to be bought out.

Remember Cody Hodgson? Christian Erhoff? Vinny Lecavalier? Hell, Parise's isnt finished for another 7 years lol

I think the worst was a Milbury special...Alexei Yashin.

2 things, 1:Being bought out means u make even more money. 2: If the blues do decide to keep him for one year he might be happy with a change of scenary.

Man was he an idiot. He makes Chiarelli look like a Stanford professor: https://thehockeywriters.com/top-10-worst-mike-milbury-trades-contracts-and-transactions/

LeCavlier was a stud though. He just kept getting hurt. But, yeah, bad contract due to health.

Realistically, the value to take a player with negative value sits right between what a is necessary for a team to feel its worth it for them and what the other team is even willing to do for that cap space. its a fine line with Lucic IMO.

If you are EDM, does losing 6M of virtually dead cap equate to Evan Bouchard and lottery pick? No it doesn't. Its not worth it.

If ever EDM got to the point where they so desperately needed cap space (for whatever reason), it would make more sense for them to trade a player with value like Nuge, for fair value back but no cap coming back to another team than it would to trade Lucic with all that extra attached.

With that said, if Edm could offer a late'sh 1st round pick somehow, I as a Habs fan woudl be ok with a Lucic+1st for an AHL'er type deal. Montreal has the luxury of cap space and no one to spend it on so taking Lucic and buying him out, even with his insane cap penalty could still be worth it. You'd essentially be paying some money to buy a 1st rounder. The cap space you no longer have would only be a problem if you needed it for something.

Everything has a price. Judging by what I would do if I were in charge, that price where both teams should be ok with it would be:

Milan Lucic
1st round pick (21st-31st)
for
Career AHL'er
7th round pick

Even if EDM tells him he'd be bought by them if not? At that point, his ill will would only look bad on him. Its not like Lucic wouldn't still have the same opportunity to move on to a new team regardless of which team buys him out.

Yeah...that one might take the cake