Details in a NHL contract

[TopShelfWaterBottle]

What are all the details that go into a NHL contract?

ie: insurance, money, term
What other specific details are there?

 

[Teemu VIII]

Movement clauses
Restricted activity clauses (i.e. you can't ride a motorcycle, you can't play X sport in the offseason)
Payment schedule
Ticket/travel/housing/vehicle allowances

 

[Evergreen]

To add to Teemu's points above: Player obligations such as media, autograph and promotional appearances, etc.

 

[TheStroker]

According to most fans, it must surely be just term and total dollars.

 

[ottawa]

According to most fans, it must surely be just term and total dollars.

See post #2 & 3

 

[mouser]

What are all the details that go into a NHL contract?

ie: insurance, money, term
What other specific details are there?

http://www.nhl.com/nhl/en/v3/ext/CBA2012/NHL_NHLPA_2013_CBA.pdf

Exhibit 1, pages 310-320 (330 to 340 in PDF).

Plus salary/bonuses/term and any protections against movement.

 

[alko]

Unfortunately, pictures are gone. Thisis a contract of Yegeni Malkin from 2008.

Somewhere i was also his contract from Russia. But cant find it anymore.

Aaand i found it: take a look here. Again. Pictures are gone.

 

[mouser]

Unfortunately, pictures are gone. Thisis a contract of Yegeni Malkin from 2008.

Somewhere i was also his contract from Russia. But cant find it anymore.

Aaand i found it: take a look here. Again. Pictures are gone.

Yup, when that contract was viewable it was a line for line copy of the SPC in the CBA Exhibit 1. With the only unique details being his salary and signing/performance bonus information.

 

[tarheelhockey]

This would probably be better answered on the Business board.

 

[BattleBorn]

I was always under the impression that they're all pretty much boilerplate plus/minus certain applicable/nonapplicable clauses.

 

[LadyStanley]

I was always under the impression that they're all pretty much boilerplate plus/minus certain applicable/nonapplicable clauses.

Kinda. Boilerplate = salary, term and trade/movement restrictions and bonuses (signing and performance).

All the "travel/ticket/housing" stuff is defined in CBA. For instance: team pays travel to/from off season location and team. Players get two tickets to every game (home and away). Traded players get 30 days of transitional housing (read hotel), etc. Medical insurance paid by team, etc.

 

[Killion]

Kinda. Boilerplate = salary, term and trade/movement restrictions and bonuses (signing and performance).

Totally Bolierplate. Player Contracts are Templates, have been for decades, even before the Universal Draft in 63 with A/B/C-Forms.

 

[LadyStanley]

Totally Bolierplate. Player Contracts are Templates, have been for decades, even before the Universal Draft in 63 with A/B/C-Forms.

Since 2005, contracts are a lot more boilerplate as options (team/player) went away. As did ability to "revise" contract (e.g., when Gary Suter signed with Sharks, got injured missing nearly entire season, and re-did contract -- extend -- so Sharks could sign replacement with the $$ saved), or even provide player equity in team (ala Lemieux).

 

[Jumptheshark]

one guy who I played Jr B with who got to the NHL showed me his contract--this is 25 years ago so it might have changed. My buddy loved stuff like rock climbing, sky diving and other highly dangerous stuff. The team that drafted and signed him had it written in his contract what he could and could not do not only during the season but in the off season as well. The team also had final say in his main personal choice of vehicle. This was partly due to the team having a contract that had its players getting a brand new car during the season in exchange for advertising and promotion via the team.