You have absolutely no idea at all what I'm saying. I'm going to try one more time before I give up.

Scenario A: You don't buy out James Neal. Your cap space this offseason is X. You spend Y on UFAs and end up at ~$81M cap hit. If none of those contracts are 1 year deals that expire next summer, you don't automatically have enough to sign Darnell Nurse.

Scenario B: you buy out James Neal. Your cap space is X+3.8. You spend Y+3.8 on UFAs and end up at ~$81M cap hit. If none of those contracts are 1 year deals that expire next summer, you don't automatically have enough to sign Darnell Nurse.

This is all I was saying. Nowhere did I say James Neal shouldn't be bought out, and nowhere did I say anything about not using cap room so I have no clue where you got those assertions from. The end result in these two scenarios is the exact same. In both scenarios, if you're going to spend to the cap this offseason, you need to have enough money in 1 year deals (not just all multi-year deals) to give yourself enough space to fit a Nurse extension next offseason.