{"id":50305,"date":"2019-06-29T15:04:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T19:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=50305"},"modified":"2019-06-29T15:04:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T19:04:57","slug":"valeri-nichushkin-waived-by-dallas-stars-for-purpose-of-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/06\/29\/valeri-nichushkin-waived-by-dallas-stars-for-purpose-of-buyout\/","title":{"rendered":"Valeri Nichushkin Waived by Dallas Stars for Purpose of Buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Stars<\/a> waived forward\u00a0Valeri Nichushkin<\/strong><\/a> Saturday with the intention of buying out the final year of his contract. The buyout will cost Dallas $700,000 this season and $450,000 next season. Nichushkin returned to the Stars<\/a> from the KHL prior to this season, but failed to record a goal all year. He’ll become an unrestricted free agent on July 1st, and there’s a strong possibility Nichushkin goes back overseas.<\/p>\n

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The Dallas #Stars<\/a> have placed Valeri Nichushkin on waivers for the purpose of a buyout.<\/p>\n

Because Nichushkin is less than 27 years old, his buyout ratio is reduced to 1\/3 (instead of 2\/3), resulting in a lower cap hit<\/p>\n

2019-20: $700k
\n2020-21: $450khttps:\/\/t.co\/NibYFAUysy<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/s6s11O07sk<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 CapFriendly (@CapFriendly) June 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Valeri Nichushkin Waived by Dallas Stars<\/h1>\n

Nichushkin has played four years in the NHL, but played in the KHL for two seasons from 2016 to 2018. Over that period,\u00a0Nichushkin has solely played for the Stars. He has put up 23\u00a0goals and 51\u00a0assists for 74\u00a0career points in 223\u00a0career games. He was originally drafted in the first round, tenth\u00a0overall of the 2013\u00a0NHL draft by the Stars.<\/p>\n

Last season he scored no goals and ten assists for ten points. He had no penalty minutes tallied. His possession numbers were 48.9 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of 0.9.<\/p>\n

What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n

With high expectations, Nichushkin floundered this year in Dallas. One has to think he’s played his last NHL game. He fared much better in Russia playing for CSKA Moscow, tallying 51 points in 86 games over two seasons. It’s probably best for Nichushkin to return to his home country and carve out a career there.<\/p>\n

For the Stars, however disappointing it is that Nichushkin didn’t work out, the buyout frees up a bit more cap space this season for them to be flexible in free agency. They’re already linked<\/a> to Sharks captain\u00a0Joe Pavelski<\/strong><\/a>, and this enables them to offer him a little bit of extra money.<\/p>\n

\"\"MOSCOW, RUSSIA APRIL 4, 2018: CSKA Moscow’s Valeri Nichushkin (L) and SKA St Petersburg’s Sergei Plotnikov in Leg 4 of their 2017\/18 KHL Western Conference final playoff tie at the CSKA Ice Palace in Moscow; CSKA Moscow won 2-1. Mikhail Japaridze\/TASS (Photo by Mikhail JaparidzeTASS via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Stars waived forward\u00a0Valeri Nichushkin Saturday with the intention of buying out the final year of his contract. The buyout will cost Dallas $700,000 this season and $450,000 next season. Nichushkin returned to the Stars from the KHL prior to this season, but failed to record a goal all year. He’ll become an unrestricted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3006,"featured_media":30048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,34],"tags":[4196,102,37,38,5957,502],"class_list":["post-50305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stars","category-news","tag-buyout","tag-dallas-stars","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-waivers","tag-valeri-nichushkin"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}