Pet Charles
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- Oct 10, 2017
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I think Briere has some cap issues, because - and I don't know the details of the criteria for the bonuses - I would suspect Michkov will realize a good portion of those bonuses.Performance bonus timing depends on whether they finish over the cap or not (by something like utilizing LTIR). If they do, it gets moved to the following season’s cap. That’s the super simple way to think about it.
Unless they do something else, they’re probably using LTIR at some point. They could go with more ELCs and maybe squeak in there. But…yeah.
This is Exhibit A (or B) of why signing Johnson and extending Hathaway is just stupid. Hathaway is a third-liner on a mediocre team, fourth on a good team. Even if one is fine with having him around for two more years after this one, extending him now is just confusing. He's 32, and at some point, he's going to fall off the cliff. Granted, it's a short hill, but he's going to fall off it and then there's 2.5M committed to player who's not worth that amount.