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Old 04-17-2008, 05:45 AM   #54 (permalink)
Kekkonen
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Originally Posted by Muppetus Galacticus View Post
Emery will be bought out, it would be suicidal to keep him around
If the rules for this go like they did with the Islanders' Yashin buy-out, they'd have to pay Emery two thirds of the remaining value of his contract over twice the remaining contract length. That would mean something in the neighborhood of $1,1 million for the next 4 years.

Not that bad, if you ask me. In fact, it means that maybe he isn't quite as untradeable as I thought, if there is a GM somewhere willing to take on the gamble. Because the fact is, he's got talent but he's a headcase; headcases can be cured (even though the odds are always greatly against that happening), but there's just no cure for lack of talent.
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