4.5M bonus overages?

It's already factored in. Two rows above the caphit you'll see an overage row and $4.5 million

Why not sign Bergeron to $775k and give him $1,745,000 in very easily performance bonuses?

good to know

Not sure when CF started automatically adding this in. I didn't even notice it until someone else mentioned it maybe a week or so ago.

It was probably when they tweeted out the official overages. At least for this one

not interested in doing the bonuses ****. carryover bonuses are a bad idea. end up with a cap hit without a name on the roster

Well this season you're in a tight cap spot and you'll need to get creative to be competitive. After next season the cap is expected to jump up $4 million from $83.5 million to $87.5 million. Based on the current roster the team has $29 million in cap space next off-season, i.e. significantly more cap flexibility. This also assume that Boston by the end of the season is at the cap limit. If Boston is $1.8 million under the cap then Bergeron's bonuses of $1,745,000 per my example wouldn't be carried over.