He’s now the only NHL player to have had his contract bought out by 2 different teams.

According to Elliotte Friedman:

Some clarity here: Philadelphia put Tony DeAngelo on waivers to buy out his contract. It is not a termination. So, assuming he clears tomorrow, DeAngelo will be a free agent.

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    Hey I know it’s a bit thin right now but I just wanted to send a thanks out into the void to those of you who are posting hockey content here as it was my main reason for being on reddit.

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      🙌 Sick, dude! So glad I could help. It’ll take some time, but we can rebuild it! haha

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      Here, here! Same with me, I chose Lemmy because there was already a hockey community, how ever small it may be.

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    I thought his stint in Carolina a few years ago was widely considered a success for him?

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      On the whole, the Canes finished up that campaign in the 2nd round of the postseason with a 4 games to 3 series loss to the Rangers.

      If you look at his numbers, they definitely weren’t bad. 10G/41A/51P in 64 games. 13 points shy of a point per game for the Canes, after being bought out by the Rangers just 5 days before he signed with the Canes. But then that summer the Canes sent him packin’ to Philly for a 2024 2nd, 2023 3rd, & 2022 4th.

      So, while researching this, it seems that I wasn’t going crazy, and there in fact was a trade in place for the Flyers to send him back to the Canes in this year’s free agency. The trade was DeAngelo for a prospect - with Philly retaining 50% of his salary. However, the NHL held up the trade due to CBA clause 50.5, which states:

      under no circumstances may a Club reacquire, as part of a Retained Salary Transaction, the contract of a player who was on that Club’s Reserve List within the past calendar year.

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      As the article states, if the Flyers didn’t retain any part of his salary, the trade would have gone through.