Talking about kane obviously because he would be the only one we could utilize that for. And I didn't say minimum, i said minimal.
If i said league minimum, then yeah I get what you are saying but you obviously didn't read. That's fine.
It's not "not", more like "maybe" happening.
Regardless, Kane taking a 3-4 mil aav with 4-5 mil in performance bonuses would make sense for yzerman, and potentially makes sense for kane since he wants to break the american born points record (for example purposes).
Most likely, I would guess you are correct. But everyone has gone with conventional wisdom with kane and he has yet to go with that way of thinking. Why would he go to detroit just to play with DBC? Why would he go with a team that isn't a contender? Why wouldn't he want to play at home with his dad and his season tickets? Why blah blah blah.
I wouldn't put it past him. He is highly intelligent. If he wants to win a cup in detroit (honestly don't know if he even wants to but lets just say he does) then I would assume he'd rather have a lower aav to bring on more players but the performance bonuses would recoup the difference. I would also probably make the performance bonuses easier than typical to obtain like minimum 50 GP gets x dollars, 60 points gets x dollars, 20-25 goals gets x dollars. All of those are easily attainable if he stays healthy which is the only real question yzerman would have, but so far, he has just looked like he lost acceleration after the surgery and that is it, which is encouraging. And, having easy to obtain goals as long as he is healthy also get's him his money he wants while giving us all that aav next year to mess with.
By then, copp's deal has 1 year left, chiarot is on final year, holl is on his last year, petry is gone, and we can insert edvinsson (probably already on the roster), kasper/danielson (if not there already), mazur, wallinder/ASP/ALJO? ASP is probably a year early so probably not, but never know. All of which would be a net positive in cap hits to the ones that I said are most likely gone. (if chiarot plays next year like this year, maybe he stays idk)