Sabres decline

This is some NHL 21 craziness

Sure man. OS Pettersson and you're going to lose Barkov. A team like Florida can't afford both with big money.

I'm not even going to bother addressing the rest of the insanity here, all I want to focus on is the Bobrovsky buyout:

Florida is one of the most cash-poor teams in the league. Full stop. Sure they save $9M here, and most owners would find that alluring, but the Panthers can save an additional $16M if they just trade him at 50% retained. The sum cost of a buyout is $41M and the cost of retaining on the rest of Bob's deal is $25M. This is still a substantial loss for the Panthers, and they're a club that cannot afford that kind of dead cap. They can barely afford what they foolishly signed Bobrovsky to but they're at least getting *something* for their money. There's no way to convince the ownership to take that big of a loss for literally no return.

Bobrovsky will be Knight's backup until Spencer is owed a new contract. At minimum. $15M in dead cap is probably justifiable, as you're looking at the equivalent of a year and a half of Bobrovsky, but what's more likely is a buyout when there are 2 years left on that deal given the equivalence to paying him the same to not play for you as you would one season of Bob.

You just send those picks for Dunn and we can skip all of the offer sheet business. You could probably even re-sign him cheaper and shorter term.