ColdSteel2
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I'll disagree on the general theory. All the "penalty" does is ensure that the amount that the player is paid, is the total amount of cap hit. All of the teams and players who agreed to these contracts assured the NHL that the players expected to play out the entire term of the contract. The "penalty" just guarantees that total cash paid = total cap hit, which isn't really a penalty IMO.
Right, that is true. I just really don't think they would have signed him that long in that case. We could have shaved off a couple of years and paid him an extra 400-500K a year which only would have been a concern in 2010-11 where we could have easily signed a backup goalie for 550-700K alternatively to Turco at 1.3M to make him fit.