Lenny7
Joined: Jan. 2017
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I'm always curious when I see Ottawa buyouts (ie. Zaitsev or Murray). You've got lots of cap space, why not just eat the contracts for a couple of years? They'll expire when you're starting to pay a lot of the younger guys. Don't handcuff yourself down the road, when you *should* have room to pay them for a couple of years...or, retain 50% and you might be able to move one or the other. Worst case, fire them in the pressbox or down to the AHL, and live with it.
White? That's a little trickier...