Why would we want Six Million Dollar Matt Murray? We can't buy him out (although you can) so he would take up a roster slot and cost us a $4,687,500 cap hit. A third and an over-the-horizon fourth isn't sufficient compensation for that -- Los Angeles just paid a bottom-pairing RhD, an RhD prospect, and a second-round draft pick to get rid of a $5 million cap dump while retaining $2 million on another player.
Why would we want Six Million Dollar Matt Murray? We can't buy him out (although you can) so he would take up a roster slot and cost us a $4,687,500 cap hit. A third and an over-the-horizon fourth isn't sufficient compensation for that -- Los Angeles just paid a bottom-pairing RhD, an RhD prospect, and a second-round draft pick to get rid of a $5 million cap dump while retaining $2 million on another player.
We will just have to wait to see what the boss deals him for
I also think he will probably buy him out but it’s going to cost us 2.5m next year
We will just have to wait to see what the boss deals him for
I also think he will probably buy him out but it’s going to cost us 2.5m next year
I get the sentiment completely, but that's what the other teams are going to call "Not my problem". I don't think anyone is going to take on that salary or the extended cap hit with a buyout for next to nothing. Few teams have both the cash and cap space, and none of them are doing it as a favour. If there was a market to unload him using mid-round picks, it probably would have happened by now. They are better off buying him out and eating the relatively small hit.