Curufinwe
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Vinny would have been moved by now if Hextall was willing to eat salary.
Hextall really could back himself into a corner with a ton of dead space if he does hence why he has to be careful right now. We'll likely be docked $2M+ for next year with bonuses on Timonen's deal. Then you have high bonuses on Gostisbehere & Morin potentially along with moderate size ones with Laughton. Also if buy out Umberger out in his last year you'll have about $1.5M in dead space for two years. You also have to do this while having the Pronger contract still on the books.
Kimmo's maximum bonus is only $1.5 million, and Laughton has no performance bonuses in the first year of his deal. So the bonus overage for next season should be manageable.
But I do agree with your point that Hextall needs to be careful about retaining salary on Vinny's contract because that will carry on for four years. The Flyers are currently positioned to maximize the upper limit using LTIR Option 2 if they want to. So they don't need to trade Lecavalier.