This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sportsnet Radio Network.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to the Jeff Merrick show.

Matt Markezy filling in for Jeff for the next three days.

He is, as I checked my watch here at the, yeah, he's on his way to make this.

He'll be there for the awards. It'll be there for the draft. And then he's on his way to make this he'll be there for the awards would be there

for the draft and then he's making his way back for free agency on monday lots to get to

before then sounds like it's going to be a busy week based on everything that's out there

as elia freeman who will join us in a few minutes, said,

it's going to be bananas.

What does that mean?

Well, I guess we'll find out very shortly.

We've got the buyout window that opens later on tonight.

And I'm assuming we're going to get some news pretty quickly after the window opens.

I guess the biggest question is how busy is this going to be?

Because it's not something that GMs have been big fans of doing.

Ownership, maybe even more so ownership doesn't necessarily want to pay players to not be there.

But I am very curious with the timing of this because we do have the rise in cap,

one of the biggest ones that we've had in a while.

And it's just a curious timing that teams are exercising their might with a buyout and then having the extra

cap space. I mean, cap space is always key. I understand that. But just the timing of it is

a little bit curious. So we'll talk to Elliot about that when we get to him in just a few minutes

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