Although, Lou refused to give Marner Schedule B bonuses (potentially $2M).
In fact, Lou has never given a single player “Schedule B†bonuses.
Schedule Bonuses were introduced after the lockout.
Since then the only players drafted Top 5 that did NOT receive the full bonus schedule are Larsson + Marner.
(both contracts negotiated by Lou)
Except that's incredibly incorrect. Just last year Hanifin got the exact same as Marner. All the A bonuses, none of the B.
And pretty much all the other contracts apply as well. The full bonus is 2.85, the only players to get the max are all the 1st overalls and Eichel.
Most of the rest got in the 2-2.5 range, but not the full bonus.
My apologizes, I did mean to say
Top 4 (Hanifin was #5 OA)
And yes, my post was overall... well sloppy.
Another stab at it:
Lou has never given a single player “Schedule B†bonuses.
Since 2008 the only players drafted Top 4 that did not receive any Schedule B bonuses at all are Larsson + Marner.
(Larsson didn't receive Schedule A bonuses either)
(Lou is on record granting Marner Sched A because he was brought in while negotiations were in progress)
2008 - 2015 Top 4 OA ELC bonuses:
Larsson $0
Marner $850,000
Strome $2,475,000
Ekblad $2,850,000
S. Reinhart $2,650,000
Draisaitl $2,475,000
Bennett $2,300,000
MacKinnon $2,850,000
Barkov $2,650,000
Drouin $2,300,000
Jones $2,300,000
Yakupov $2,850,000
Murray $2,600,000
Galchenyuk $2,300,000
G. Reinhart $2,350,000
Nugent-Hopkins $2,850,000
Landeskog $2,650,000
Huberdeau $2,300,000
Hall $2,850,000
Seguin $2,650,000
Gudbranson $2,300,000
Johansen $1,075,000
Tavares $2,850,000
Hedman $2,600,000
Duchene $2,300,000
E. Kane $2,200,000
Stamkos $2,850,000
Doughty $2,600,000
Bogosian $2,500,000
Pietrangelo $2,350,000
Just trying to make a point about Lou's "philosophies" being a problem as per the OP.
Hopefully all the numbers are correct, just a hurried cut-n-paste job...
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