22M in signing bonus the first 12 months, Dundon is pissed lmao

Aho has a lower cap hit than expected

Our team looks good,

Our Draft pick situation for next year looks great

I still think Reimer gets moved, just not sure when or where
(have to see how Nedel does in camp)

We'll live, contract may not be Ideal for him, but the team is looking good

and if we can repeat that playoff revenue, he'll be fine

The cap hit is lower but he is a UFA in 5 years...this is the only thing that sucks

Yeah, but if he only wanted 5 years that's what he was gonna get,

Most importantly, his next 5 years are with Carolina

True dat

He might get traded in a year, because he doesnt wanna be a Carolina Hurricanes

Where did that come from?

he said in like 5 different interviews he wanted to stay in Carolina,

Since the offersheet ? No. He wants to play in MTL

Lol. TY? Should be FU.

1) The AAV was never going to be more than 9.5. 8.4 is not that much of a savings. And for a team that does not push the ceiling anyway is not an issue.

2) Canes refused to give him 5 years and make him a UFA. They wanted 8.

3) It’s all in bonuses that’s problematic for a low budget team

4) How will it affect the locker room morale?

They did you no favors. You can sugarcoat all you want. Canes got screwed by this.

Let me say this about what MTL did here and why it will hurt the NHL in total.

The contract was all in signing bonus. Only 750, league min in salary.
The way that works out is, the signing bonus is paid in the place of player residence. It is not payed in the state of the signing.
So if Aho is a resident of say, FL, he pays 0 state tax on it. He would also pay American, not Canadian tax on it. Again a large savings.

I image that this will be the way players ask for contracts from now on.
Why this is bad for the NHL, is that it puts small market teams as larger disadvantages. We already know there was an imbalance between tax free states and the rest of the league.
But this makes the gap even larger for smaller market teams that don't have the revenue of larger market teams and can't pay everything up front.
It's creating a snow ball effect of imbalance to the league. Making it harder to keep competition level even.
This wasn't just 8.5 million. It was 8.5 million at a lower tax rate. Much like what FL can offer which is probably where the bonus was going to be paid. Giving it a bump into the same amount of take home pay as would have been 9+ in carolina on salary. The small market teams can't pay all the bonus while the larger market teams can. The only teams that can get around it, are the handful of teams in tax free areas.

Teams working on budgets have to use their generated revenue through the year to pay the bills. They can't simply splash down all the cash at once.
Things like this will lead to greater imbalances in the league.