cut #10 please

Teams are entitled to buy out player contracts for a portion of the remaining value of the contract — paid over a period of twice the remaining length of the contract. Following are the buyout amounts:

Younger than age 26 at the time of buyout, 1/3 the remaining value
Age 26 or older at the time of the buyout, 2/3 the remaining value

The remainder of this explanation assumes the player was not 35 or older when he signed his contract (in which case a buyout saves the team financially but does not reduce the player’s cap hit).
When a player is bought out, the team still takes a cap hit for the player over a period of twice the remaining length of the contract. The amount of the cap hit (by year) is determined as follows:

Take the actual salary due for each remaining year
Take the Averaged Player Salary (cap hit) for the current contract
Calculate the buyout amount (as described above)
Spread the buy-out amount evenly over twice the remaining years of the contract
Take the number in No. 1 and subtract the number in No. 4. This is the “buyout savings.”
Take the cap hit from No. 2 and subtract the buyout savings from No. 5.

Now for Christian Ehrhoff

Christian Ehrhoff is 29 years old on the buyout date of June 15, 2012, setting the buyout ratio at 2/3 and the total buyout cost at $20,000,000 spread over 18 years. His contract was originally valued at $40,000,000 beginning in 2011 and ending in 2021, with $30,000,000 remaining from the buyout year forward. The following is a season-by-season breakdown of the buyout. A negative buyout cap hit indicates a credit.

2012-13: -$2,888,889
2013-14: $1,111,111
2014-15: $1,111,111
2015-16: $1,111,111
2016-17: $1,111,111
2017-18: $2,111,111
2018-19: $4,111,111
2019-20: $4,111,111
2020-21: $4,111,111
2021-22: $1,111,111
2022-23: $1,111,111
2023-24: $1,111,111
2024-25: $1,111,111
2025-26: $1,111,111
2026-27: $1,111,111
2027-28: $1,111,111
2028-29: $1,111,111
2029-30: $1,111,111

So by buying out Ehrhoff’s contract you are losing between $1m and $4m in cap space over the next 18 years. Doesn’t matter how much money Pegula has, putting your team in that much of a hole over the next 18 years doesn’t give your team the best chance to win.

See….this is the type of post that causes many prominent members of this site to caricature people who are “down” on Miller, Roy, Ruff, Myers, etc. Man, make a post about why you think the signing was a bad idea (I disagree, but that’s OK) not saying that he’s done nothing right and is “garbage”. There’s a way to make the argument you are trying to make w/o sounding like you plan on calling into the “Whiner Line” and reading this tomorrow.

But that’s just my humble opinion.

He leads the blueline in points

He has a rocket of a shot that he can put high to score with or low to create rebounds/tips/general crease mayhem/intentional wide shots for the big bounce off the boards

He carries the puck up the ice like few people his size and when there is room it is one of my favorite things to watch

He eats minutes like Augustus Gloop eats chocolates, he doesn’t complain, he just skates and doesn’t take the play off

He makes errors of commission not omission

When Myers comes back I think they would be great together as a pair on the 5v5 and especially on the PP so they can have the sticks inside and if a team presses one the other has a much easier time finding a seam to let the shot or pass get through.

I do think that he has had some issues with some of the bouncing pucks on the right hand side, but a lot of these fast breaks are coming from the other side when he was with Grags and the recent one with Leo that led to the penalty shot. He usually is the one back playing against the 2v1 break, and more often than not we have seen him break up the pass and a couple really outstanding pokechecks where the puck drifts harmlessly into the corner.

I think there is a communication issue, with him but also systematically on the clear because too many times we have people pushing pucks into space that is not occupied by the right color sweater, he is guilty of this. One thing I think that does lead to this is our entire blueline consisting of lefthanders it is allowing teams to try to dictate breakouts off the backhand, some people don’t care I just prefer a balanced R-L pairing when possible.

Lastly, the Greening fight was a perfect visceral response to someone coming after your goalie. If you (no one specific) at any point complained that Buffalo’s response to Miller getting run was embarrassing because the team didn’t react immediately and without thought for anything than the singular ‘you do not touch our guy’ then you sure as hell better not complain that he went after a guy who took a little cheapy on Miller behind the cage.

You might disagree, but don’t even think for one second that statements about ‘no redeeming qualities’ on this board will go unchallenged.