Quick Question; Can a team, say the Leafs buy out a players contract and then resign them for less? Say buy Sundin out and then resign him for say 3.5 or 4 mil a year instead? Or maybe even less. If you figure that his contract is now 6.8 mil/year for I don't know how many more years, say 1 since I'm not sure. You can sign him to a 3 year deal worth 3 mil/year and with the big buyout that he would get, it would be as if he was making just over 5 mil/year