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Lecavalier - Lightning 4 Life

Jul 13, 2008 NHL

Vincent Lecavalier has signed an 11 year $85 million contract to stay with the Tampa Bay Lightning.  As reported by TSN, that takes him just about to his 40th birthday.  What is interesting here is the structure of the deal:

Lecavalier will earn $10-million per season in salary and bonuses for the first six seasons of the deal, before dropping to $8.5-million in 2016-2017, $4-million in 2017-2018, $1.5-million in 2018-2019 and $1-million and 2019-2020.

Those last few years mean that his cap hit is a slightly more palatable $7.72 million per year.  I guess the Lightning are trying to stay on the front page at TSN.

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