Depending on what the cap number would be, this would pretty much make anybody in play for a top FA this year which would be very interesting

I have a hard time believing the league would ever consider giving teams 2 CBO's. However, playing a long here, I do think there will be a bunch of teams, the richer sort, that get creative in helping some of the poorer teams out as part of trades, etc.

They did it before.

Under the provisions of the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, each team is allowed two compliance buyouts before the start of the 2014-15 season. The buyouts must occur during windows of time specified by the CBA.

https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-com-official-compliance-buyout-tracker/c-675349

If there are 2 San Jose will likely use them on Vlasic and Jones

I agree teams that are out of CBO'S will trade player and the other team will gain draft picks. and then buyout said player

There sure wont be 2 CBOs with a flat cap, If the cap drops to $70 million or possibly $60 million then perhaps there might be or a rollback.

There sure wont be 2 CBOs with a flat cap, If the cap drops to $70 million or possibly $60 million then perhaps there might be or a rollback.

There sure wont be 2 CBOs with a flat cap, If the cap drops to $70 million or possibly $60 million then perhaps there might be or a rollback.

Thats more likely

This is a different situation, and the PA has to vote to agree with whatever the NHL proposes. It's not as simple as, "because it was done before, it is automatic to exact form and content as it had been done previously".

Yes, not Burns

I understand that. But it's not out of the realm of possibility. by no means am I saying it's written in stone.

Price and Alzner. No way Weber because then we can't resign him.

I just assumed all habs fans wanted to keep price.

Yeah but then again, I don't think we can replace Price rn and Optimus Primeau is not ready yet

If it were me, I'd go Vlassic and Karlsson.

Sabres would be Okposo for sure,
then Hutton next pretty easily
Some would say it should be Skinner,
but our GM would never do that after just signing him to the big deal

Question: can you CBO a previous buyout? If so, I think Edmonton would be best served by turning Sekera's buyout into a CBO instead of buying out Russell, for two reasons: I don't think Russell's play warrants a buyout, and it would create space over the next 3 years vs just 1 with a Russell buyout.