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Let's see, and tally up the benefit the Preds illegally gained.
I scowered the internet and only came up with stats from capfriendly and some other site and only lost the 2012-13 season.
Random stats from a random site I found from google, fromthisseat
13-14: Benefit 6 142 857 dollars, remaining cap at 4 856 543. Actual benefit of 1 286 314.
14-15: Benefit 6 142 857 dollars, remaining cap 12 887 856, no benefit.
Capfriendly:
15-16: Benefit 6 142 857 dollars, and the Predators had 9 396 695 left to use at seasons end, they did not benefit. They would have had 3 253 838 left.
16-17: Benefit 4 142 857, remaining cap was 3 570 699. Actual benefit of 572 158 over the cap.
17-18: Benefit 4 142 857, remaining cap was 2 883 956 Actual benefit of 1 257 901 over the cap.
After that it's useless to make the comparison as the benefit is negative already, and it would only lessen the actual benefit, according to the excel sheet above.
So, actual benefits from the contract come up to 3 116 373 dollars without the initial contract year benefits from 2012-13.
That's what the Nashville Predators has benefitted from that contract, up to this point, and that benefit is already negated by that excel sheet above, which was made for this situation.
That's the type of "unfair advantage" the Predators actually gained on all the other woeful teams who didn't get to choose between both of their top defenders leaving and saving one but having to give them a shitton of money upfront and term the Preds probably weren't going to offer otherwise
People really think the Preds of 2013 are the Preds of 2021 or something because that team wasn't all that stable in the grand scheme of things.
Thank you so much for digging up those cap figures. It’s sad how the historical numbers are so hard to access. I still miss Capgeek, which not only was comprehensive, but well organized and with a good archive. RIP Matthew Wuest.