Editor's Note: Earlier this week Craig Custance looked at potential compliance buyout candidates in both the Eastern and Western Conferences. With negotiations now suggesting that each team could receive a second buyout, we revisit the list of potential candidates. Here's a team-by-team look at how this clause could be used moving forward (salaries per CapGeek.com). Monday we looked at the Western Conference, so here we look at the Eastern Conference:
Eastern Conference
2013-14 payroll: 16 signed players totaling $57.4 million
Most likely amnesty cut: none
Likelihood of buyout before next season: low
Other buyout candidates: Rich Peverley
The Bruins may have to move some salary this summer especially considering Tuukka Rask is due a new contract after this season. But GM Peter Chiarelli has kept the contract numbers reasonable and can use his players as assets to trade rather than buyout candidates this summer.
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- Wrote for Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Wrote for The Sporting News
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Craig Custance
Craig Custance joined ESPN in September 2011 as an NHL reporter for ESPN the Magazine, ESPN Insider and ESPN.com. A graduate of Michigan State University, he lived for nearly a decade in Georgia working for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where he spent time covering the late Atlanta Thrashers. He was the only Thrashers beat writer to get the team to the playoffs.
From 2008-11 he was the national hockey writer for the Sporting News, writing regularly in print and online. A member of the PHWA, he's a proud voter for the major NHL awards and can occasionally defend his selections.
Like hockey, he left Atlanta to return north where he currently lives in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, with his wife Cassie and their three kids.
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