Breaking: Flames buy out two players

The Calgary Flames have announced that they’ve placed forward Lance Bouma and recently acquired defenseman Ryan Murphy on unconditional waivers for the purposes of a contract buy-out. 

Bouma’s three-year, $6.6 million contract was set to expire at the conclusion of 2017-18, but due to buy-out rules, he’ll carry a cap hit of roughly $700,000 for the next two seasons. As for Murphy, the 24 year-old defenseman was JUST acquired from the Carolina Hurricanes yesterday, only to see his contract terminated. He’ll carry a cap hit of of $100,000 in 2017-18 and $137,500 in 2018-19.