With the city of Los Angeles celebrating their second Stanley Cup in the last three years, the city of Buffalo hopes to be preparing Ville Leino's goodbye parade very soon.
Leino's contract may be one of the more infamous of the past few years, as his six-year, $27 million deal with the Buffalo Sabres has made him one of the most glaringly overpaid players in the league.
This talk has made Leino a buyout favorite, especially considering the Sabres still have both of their lockout-awarded amnesty buyouts. This would allow the Sabres to buy out Leino with no salary-cap consequences, something most teams are keen to avoid.
Sabres general manager Tim Murray also said that a Leino buyout was a "very good possibility" a few weeks ago, according to CBS Sports.
Yet there has been some pause recently in respect to Leino's buyout because of the salary-cap floor the Sabres must meet, which is expected to be about $52 million in 2014-15.
As of right now, according to CapGeek, the Sabres have a team salary of $38.9 million, about $13 million shy of the projected cap floor. A compliance buyout of Leino w ...
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Buffalo Sabres: The Ville Leino Buyout Saga
June 17th, 2014 by Matt Clouden Leave a reply »
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