Modifié 2 déc. 2018 à 13 h 12
Quoting: Vanderm
Can someone explain to me how we're seeing this contract with varying AAV's during the life of the contract? Why isn't the math $45M/6 years = $7.5M? It seems like a circumvention. Brilliant by Dubas, for sure.
I'll try:
The confusing part comes from salary versus cap hit. Cap hit is the total amount of the salary paid to the player averaged out over the span of their contract. This gives you the AAV we see for every player on this site. The weird thing is that players aren't usually paid the cap hit. Most players get a different salary (the dollars paid to them) every year. For example, Parise and Suter on the Wild are being paid $9M this year in salary, but their cap is around $7.5M. This is because their deal is front-loaded which means they are paid over the cap hit for the first few years but under their cap hit for the last few years of their deal.
For RFA's if they sign in-season their cap hit is calculated differently based on salary. The following is not true for anybody except RFA's (so UFA's do not get the same treatment). To calculate cap hit for years 2-6 for Nylander you take the
salary he earns this year ($12M) and multiply it by the days in the current NHL season remaining, divide that number by total NHL days in a season (186) and then add that number to the total amount of
salary still owed to the player (so $33M), then divide that by the total years of the contract (so 6 years for Nylander). This gives you that weird $6.96M number. To calculate the
cap hit for the first year (this year), you take that $6.96 cap hit number and multiply it by total season days (186) and divide it by season days remaining. That gives you the $10M number.
It's really confusing but basically the ratio of season days remaining and total season days (and vice versa) along with the salary give you the weird numbers.