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Originally Posted by JeffR
The compliance buyouts were added to help the AI with cap management - in real life, the GM's gave themselves a way to dump their bad contracts after the last CBA. We don't have labour negotiations in the game, so to simulate the occasional "one time only" escape clause from bad contracts, teams are allowed one compliance buyout every few seasons, starting in 2017. I may need to make the logic a little less liberal about who it dumps, but in 2014 it was used on a still-productive Brad Richards, Vinny Lecavalier, and Christian Ehrhoff, among others.
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Think that should be optional. The NHL compliance buyouts from last negotiations are all done. So the current contracts are locked in place. At some point if they negotiate a new CBA and add more buyouts that would be in time to include in the next version of the game, whatever year that may be.