‘Hutton will only count $2.75 million against the salary cap when many felt he would get $4 million per year. Hutton visted Buffalo and decided early on that this is a place he’d like to come to, “I’ve always had some ties to guys in Buffalo as well, I played for Phil in Nashville and Andrew Allen was my goalie coach in Rockford, I had Jerry Forton in college, so I always thought it might be an option.’