Confirmed Signing with Link: [STL] D Quinton Burns signs ELC with the Blues (3 years, $870k AAV)

[Mrfenn92]

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[hotcabbagesoup]

any relation to Quinton Byfield?

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

any relation to Quinton Byfield?

They’re twins, can’t you tell?

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

They’re twins, can’t you tell?

Quadruplets
Quentin Miller and Musty are also in there.

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

Quadruplets
Quentin Miller and Musty are also in there.

Quentin and Quinton is not sharing the same name the same way Burnzie and Byfield do.

 

[Stealth JD]

His father, Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns, is a Springfield legend. Maybe Quinton gets to play in front of him at some point this year in the AHL, for the Thunderbirds.

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

That's some odd timing. Starts 2025/26.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Quadruplets
Quentin Miller and Musty are also in there.

They didn't come out yet? Let's go boys! Mama tired.

 

[boredmale]

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

 

[Jared Dunn]

Can someone explain why the contract starts in 2025/26?

 

[SirKillalot]

There should be a "Mr. Burns" a la Simpsons chant made right with evil look and tapping fingers after?

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

Can someone explain why the contract starts in 2025/26?

Teams and players can sign post-dated ELCs, the same way that you can extend a player for the next year.

It may be as simple as the Blues can't burn a contract spot this year, and his ELC will slide regardless.

The more common use of it is when a team wants a player to qualify to play in the AHL for a run near the end of the season, so they will sign a post-dated ELC with the big club and a tryout contract with the AHL team, so that they can qualify to join them.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Can someone explain why the contract starts in 2025/26?

Check floating?

 

[uncleben]

Can someone explain why the contract starts in 2025/26?

Teams and players can sign post-dated ELCs, the same way that you can extend a player for the next year.

It may be as simple as the Blues can't burn a contract spot this year, and his ELC will slide regardless.

The more common use of it is when a team wants a player to qualify to play in the AHL for a run near the end of the season, so they will sign a post-dated ELC with the big club and a tryout contract with the AHL team, so that they can qualify to join them.

It was just a misreporting.


Per the CBA,

No Club or Player may enter into an SPC that does not cover at least the then current League Year.
The foregoing does not apply to an SPC entered into pursuant to Section 50.5(f) above ["A Club that wishes to sign a Player to an "extension" of an existing SPC may do so only in the final year of such SPC."], or to Unsigned Draft Choices or Draft Related Unrestricted Free Agents, who shall be permitted to sign an SPC during the period from March 1 through June 1 immediately preceding the League Year in which such SPC is to take effect.

Which is essentially to say, you can only post-date the contract if it's an extension to a player with an active SPC in the final year of his deal
OR
A player who has never had a SPC, but it has to be between March and June.

So Burns would not be able to sign an ELC starting in 2025/26 right now. (He could sign a 2024/25 contract though with the full and complete understanding that the club has no intention of calling him up and will force his contract to slide to 2025/26)