No Brisebois can't stay if the Habs buy out his contract.
Any team that buys out a player cannot bring that player back for 1 Calender year, whether it be through trade, free agency ect.
I personally think they should buy out Brisebois and use the $3 million on another quality defenseman i.e Adam Foote, Tomas Kaberle if reports are true out of Toronto that they'll buy him out, or even bring back Eric Dejardins (again if Philly buys him out) to help develop Ron Hainsey and Mike Komisarek.
They could also use the savings to help keep Alexi Kovalev in Montreal, or bring in someone like Jeff O'Neill, Glen Murray or even Paul Kariya.
If they brought in another defenseman I'd look at buying out Craig Rivet as well.
