In what's become an annual tradition, now that the Stanley Cup playoffs are completed, it's almost buy-out season. The league-wide buy-out window opens later today, 48 hours following the completion of the Final series - though logistically, the earliest anybody would throw a player on unconditional waivers would be early tomorrow morning anyhow.
And in what has become an annual tradition, now that compliance buy-outs are over with, you will notice that very few NHL teams actually buy players out. And I'll be bold enough to definitively state that I don't think the Calgary Flames will buy anybody out, despite having a few contracts that seem a bit on the heavy side for what each player brings to the table.