OTC agrees with you, but I've also seen specifically where it says that the dead money accelerates automatically, must have been mistaken, because everything I look at now says trades post june work as you suggested.
Yes. It would still cost us millions over the next two seasons to cut/trade him while it would cost us nothing to do the same with Leary.
Now, I'm not for trading either yet (unless we get an offer that knocks our socks off) because we don't know how health will go, but near the end of camp, we might can get good value for Leary, and with Bernadeau as the backup, I think the trade value would outweigh the difference in backup value.
If Collins beats out Free, I can't see us doing anything with Free until at least next year. Ultimately, I think it will be Green who takes Free's spot when the time comes unless injury forces us to put Collins there now.