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And you have proof of that? We know that's how it was worded in Panarin's contract, no guarantee that that is how it is worded in Laine's contract.
I have extrapolated from the fact that he did get paid $1.8M for the sole achievement of top 10 in Goals, and that as a rule teams seem to tweak only the maximum amount of money but otherwise give max allowed bonus for min allowed performance, probably because potential bonuses have cap implications and it would be craziness for them to keep up if they actually would set up some individual terms, and also not to **** off their potential superstar who, to get the B, already has to do some pretty special stunt that's totally worth the money.
$1.8M is the standard 2OA setup, as 2M is for the 1OA and 1.65M or thereabouts for the 3OA. Teams know, agents know, the team getting creative would be a needless hassle. Are you gonna say your prospect that top 10 in Assists won't do the trick for him?
It's an educated guess and not factual knowledge, but I bet Laine's ELC is worded standardizedly enough to actually agree to pay him $1.8M for Vezina, should he land on one.
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