southwing
Registered User
Yzerman is an UFA. For obvious PR reasons the Wings don't want to low ball hm and they also don't want his salary to take up too much cap space. So what do you do? You hire him as an assistant coach for any number you want. Say $2 m. It doesn't affect the cap at all. But then, say around Christmas with half the season gone, you bring him back to the ice as a player coach ... out of retirement as it were. His salary from that point forward (about $1 m.) would count against the cap but the earlier portion wouldn't. So you load up the contract out of respect for who he is and you don't cripple your cap problems. And for next year, when you presume he will not play, you are not left with a problem of getting back under the cap.
If I can come up with this, and it works (not sure that it will but it's certainly interesting) imagine what a lawyer or two will come up with.
southwing,
... still praying that the Wings get a top ten pick in the draft lottery
If I can come up with this, and it works (not sure that it will but it's certainly interesting) imagine what a lawyer or two will come up with.
southwing,
... still praying that the Wings get a top ten pick in the draft lottery