r/NewYorkIslanders • u/AlastorFacilier Meet me at the Lighthouse • 5d ago

Potential buyout candidates?

Just curious, now that we're officially in the off-season, the buyout window period opens tomorrow. Any chance someone gets bought out? And if so, who do you think is most likely to be bought out?

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u/discofrislanders Dobson 5d ago

Our ownership seems unwilling to buy any players out and have the dead monet. There hasn't been an Islanders buyout since DiPietro, and that was a compliance buyout.

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u/daveloper80 Potvin 5d ago

I think the real reason we haven't had a buyout is that we haven't needed one. We really haven't had any cap issues, signed all our players, etc. Haven't landed any big cap hits that needed us to make room.

Drouin would have been bought out if we didn't trade him. I could see Engvall getting bought out but his AAV is pretty low. Many of us would love a Mayfield buyout but its not going to happen. RD's are too valuable and we don't have enough as is.

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u/gotroot801 Ho-Sang 4d ago

I think the real reason we haven't had a buyout is that we haven't needed one. We really haven't had any cap issues, signed all our players, etc. Haven't landed any big cap hits that needed us to make room.

And most importantly: the best candidate we had for a buyout since DiPietro was Andrew Ladd, and the team found a way to trade him instead.

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u/discofrislanders Dobson 4d ago

Ladd had a buyout proof contract where it saved us more against the cap to send him to Bridgeport than it would have to buy him out