Compliance buyout

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The most expensive NHL compliance buyouts. Clockwise from upper left: Vincent Lecavalier, Rick DiPietro, Ilya Bryzgalov and Brad Richards.

Compliance buyouts (sometimes referred to as amnesty buyouts) allow National Hockey League (NHL) teams to buy out a player's contract without the amount paid out counting against the NHL salary cap. In either a compliance or ordinary-course buyout, the team pays the player two-thirds of the remaining value of a contract over twice the remaining length of the contract. If the player is under 26 years old, then the team may pay the player just one-third of the remaining contract value. In an ordinary-course buyout, the amount paid out to the player each year counts against the team's salary cap for that season. [1]

Due to the 2012–13 NHL lockout, the salary cap was not to increase to the projected $70.2 million, so each team was therefore granted two compliance buyouts to be exercised after the 2012–13 season and/or after the 2013–14 season that would not count against the salary cap in any further year in order to better comply with a lower than expected cap value, regardless of the player's age. After using a compliance buyout on a player, that player is prohibited from rejoining the team that bought him out for one year; the NHL deemed that the re-signing of a player following a trade and a subsequent compliance buyout would be ruled as cap circumvention. [2]

Following the 2012–13 NHL lockout each team was granted one accelerated compliance buyout in order for teams to meet the lowered salary cap. This could be used on a player with a salary cap hit of US$3 million or more before the regular season began. If an accelerated compliance buyout is used, that team will only have one more compliance buyout left, and they must use it after the completion of the 2012–13 season (and before the start of 2013–14 season). The player's cap hit is applied in full to the team's salary cap for the 2012–13 season, but for no season after, regardless of contract length.

Available during the off-season in 2013 and 2014, amnesty buyouts begin 48 hours after the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals.

In 2013, it began 48 hours after the conclusion of the Stanley Cup, and ended on July 4, 2013. The second NHL compliance buyout period opened on June 16, 2014, and ran through June 30, 2014, with 26 teams having one or more compliance buyout available to be used. [3]

There was also a period for unlimited compliance buyouts following the 2004–05 NHL lockout from July 23–29, 2005. [4] Only nine teams opted to take advantage of this period, buying out a total of 13 players, and only three teams bought out more than one player. The players: Chris Gratton (Colorado), Andrew Cassels and Scott Lachance (Columbus), Pierre Turgeon (Dallas), Derian Hatcher, Darren McCarty, and Ray Whitney (Detroit), Mathieu Biron (Florida), Matt Johnson (Minnesota), Bobby Holik (NY Rangers), Tony Amonte and John LeClair (Philadelphia), and Brian Savage (Phoenix). [5] Due to a contract dispute between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Owen Nolan, Toronto arranged with the league to utilize a compliance buyout on Nolan if it was ruled he had the right to exercise a contract option for the 2005–06 season. [5] [6]

Combining the 2005 and 2013–2014 compliance buyout periods, 21 teams bought out at least one player. The Detroit Red Wings have bought out the most players (5), while the Philadelphia Flyers (4) and New York Rangers (3) are the only other teams with more than two. Nine franchises (eleven if the Seattle Kraken and Vegas Golden Knights are included) have never used a compliance buyout. They are the Anaheim Ducks, Boston Bruins, Carolina Hurricanes, Los Angeles Kings, Nashville Predators, Ottawa Senators, Pittsburgh Penguins, St. Louis Blues, and Winnipeg Jets (formerly the Atlanta Thrashers).

List of compliance buyouts

The following is an unofficial list of all the compliance buyouts that have been used: [7] [8]

TeamPlayerDateLengthAmountRef
Buffalo Sabres Ville Leino June 18, 20146 years$7,333,333 [9]
Christian Ehrhoff June 29, 201414 years$12,000,000 [10]
Calgary Flames Shane O'Brien June 30, 20142 years$1,466,667 [11]
Chicago Blackhawks Steve Montador June 27, 20134 years$2,733,333 [12]
Rostislav Olesz June 27, 20132 years$2,833,333 [13]
Dallas Stars Aaron Rome June 17, 20142 years$1,066,667 [14]
Detroit Red Wings Carlo Colaiacovo July 3, 20132 years$1,900,000 [15]
Jordin Tootoo June 18, 20142 years$1,333,333 [16]
Edmonton Oilers Eric Belanger July 4, 20132 years$833,333 [17]
Florida Panthers Ed Jovanovski June 30, 20142 years$2,666,667 [18]
Minnesota Wild Tom Gilbert July 3, 20132 years$2,000,000 [19]
Montreal Canadiens Scott Gomez 1January 15, 20133 years$3,000,000 [20]
Tomas Kaberle June 28, 20132 years$3,000,000 [21]
New Jersey Devils Johan Hedberg July 4, 20132 years$933,333 [22]
Anton Volchenkov June 30, 20144 years$5,666,667 [11]
New York Islanders Rick DiPietro July 3, 201316 years$24,000,000 [23]
New York Rangers Wade Redden 1January 17, 20133 years$3,333,333 [24]
Brad Richards June 20, 201412 years$20,666,667 [25]
Philadelphia Flyers Daniel Briere June 26, 20134 years$3,333,333 [26]
Ilya Bryzgalov June 26, 201314 years$23,000,000 [27]
San Jose Sharks Martin Havlat June 27, 20142 years$4,000,000 [28]
Tampa Bay Lightning Vincent Lecavalier June 27, 201314 years$32,666,667 [29]
Ryan Malone June 25, 20142 years$1,666,667 [30]
Toronto Maple Leafs Mike Komisarek July 2, 20132 years$2,333,333 [31]
Mikhail Grabovski July 4, 20138 years$14,333,333 [32]
Vancouver Canucks Keith Ballard July 3, 20134 years$5,600,000 [33]
David Booth June 17, 20142 years$3,166,667 [34]
Washington Capitals Jeff Schultz July 3, 20132 years$2,000,000 [35]
Notes
  1. Accelerated compliance buyout

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