Confirmed Trade: [BUF/NJD] Will Butcher ($910k retained) and 2022 5th round pick for future considerations

[DFF]

It’s crazy he got paid 4M/yr

 

[uncleben]

They couldn’t even get out of the full contract

Cap friendly still has the full cap hit for Buffalo. No retention for NJ.

Haven't seen that anywhere else

CapFriendly now has New Jersey retaining $910,569... which, I trust CapFriendly pretty much implicitly, but is a very weird number.

Clearly $910,569 in and of itself doesn't mean anything, but also it's not a nice percentage of the contract (24.39%), it doesn't bring Butcher's new caphit to anything nice ($2,822,764), and it's not even a nice percentage of the cap ceiling or anything (1.12%), nor round out any of New Jersey's other dead cap space to a nice number (they already had $2.25M in deadcap because of Schneider and Kovalchuk).

Just seems like a weird, arbitrary number to pick...

 

[Siludin]

It’s crazy he got paid 4M/yr

At the time it was a reasonable payout for defenseman who put up ~30-40 points in his first two seasons. Lots of people were talking about him after his rookie season specifically.

 

[SJinNewJersey]

It’s crazy he got paid 4M/yr

If that's crazy, what do you call the Skinner contract?

 

[stl76]

If that's crazy, what do you call the Skinner contract?

War crime?

 

[DFF]

If that's crazy, what do you call the Skinner contract?

The world is full of crazies?

 

[CapFriendly]

CapFriendly now has New Jersey retaining $910,569... which, I trust CapFriendly pretty much implicitly, but is very weird number.

Clearly $910,569 in and of itself doesn't mean anything, but also it's not a nice percentage of the contract (24.39%), it doesn't bring Butcher's new caphit to anything nice ($2,822,764), and it's not even a nice percentage of the cap ceiling or anything (1.12%), nor round out any of New Jersey's other dead cap space to a nice number (they already had $2.25M in deadcap because of Schneider and Kovalchuk).

Just seems like a weird, arbitrary number to pick...

We really appreciate the trust you have in us and it isn't something we take lightly.

This tweet should clarify the number, while the value appears arbitrary, the cap hit in this case was a function of the cash value that was agreed upon to be retained (1M)

 

[Gurglesons]

Seems like a decent option to replace Montour.

 

[Deen]

Thought Butcher was pretty promising. Pretty cheap honestly.

 

[jetsforever]

Remember when this guy was sought after?

 

[Irie]

Seems like a decent option to replace Montour.

Do you mean to fill the spot Buffalo always seems to have for a "Defenseman to play his offside, even though he isn't very good on the offside, but he is slightly less terrible than than all the other options on the team at playing that role"?

If the answer is"yes", then I probably will agree with you, as this seems to be a thing in the Sabres GM instructional manual that is mandatory and non-negotiable for anyone who takes that job....