Quoting: jpsnow13
Of course you can burry contracts. Look it up...
Instead of answering questions you should ask yourself, Im going to tell you the future: Pietrangelo will hit the UFA market and sign elsewhere and blues will have plenty of capspace to renew other contracts.
You can bury contracts but you don't save the full cap amount. Look it up:
What is a Buried Contract?
Teams do not receive full cap relief when a player on a one-way NHL contract is reassigned to the American Hockey League, or is loaned to a team in another professional league.
The players salary cap hit, minus the sum of the minimum NHL salary for the respective season and $375,000, still counts towards the team’s salary cap total.
The cap hit relief is therefore equal to the minimum salary of the respective season + $375,000
So burying Allen only saves about $1 million. You really do think AP leaves via free agency? It wouldn't be in line with with him and the Blues have indicated all along...but we know that can easily change so maybe. Agreed though, if he leaves STL will be ok with the cap. Still need to shed some money though.