shabbs wrote:That's a lot of buy-out to carry against the cap...
Think of it this way:
I'm paying 1 million dollar per year for Cheechoo to go away and for someone else to take his spot. Don't think about Emery's buyout or Alfie's. Alfie's is pure logistics anyway, Emery is the past. The present presents us with a pickle: how to shed Cheechoo's 3 million? The only way I can see is shipping him to Edmonton and adding the 2nd round pick to the proposed Cogliano deal.
I doubt anyone wants to do that. So the second option is to buy him out. Sucks, because he's okay, but it's manageable to purge ourselves IMO.
Or we can just waive him once and for all. Bingo needs some offensive help.
EDIT: I meant he's an okay GUY, not that he's okay. He's pretty Diddling far from being okay.