weastern bias
worst team in the league
One of the most overlooked things about the Karlsson contract that make it such a difficult asset is that the last 2 years have signing bonuses which negate the benefits of a buyout
If the Pens bought him out next summer the penalies look like this:
26 - $7.32M ($1.10M for San Jose)
27 - $9.49M ($1.42M for San Jose)
28 - $797K ($120K for San Jose)
29 - $797K ($120K for San Jose
If they did so next summer:
27 - $9.13M ($1.37M for San Jose)
28 - $435K ($65K for San Jose)
The salary retention mitigates it to a marginal degree, but the signing bonus in the last season almost entirely wipes out any cap benefits to buying him out, if you aquire his contract you're either trading him again or seeing it through to the end, it's Doug Wilson's single most crippling signing of his entire career
If the Pens bought him out next summer the penalies look like this:
26 - $7.32M ($1.10M for San Jose)
27 - $9.49M ($1.42M for San Jose)
28 - $797K ($120K for San Jose)
29 - $797K ($120K for San Jose
If they did so next summer:
27 - $9.13M ($1.37M for San Jose)
28 - $435K ($65K for San Jose)
The salary retention mitigates it to a marginal degree, but the signing bonus in the last season almost entirely wipes out any cap benefits to buying him out, if you aquire his contract you're either trading him again or seeing it through to the end, it's Doug Wilson's single most crippling signing of his entire career