Stamkos Contract Fun
Jul 30, 2008 NHL
Considering Stamkos is pretty much guaranteed to make the Tampa Bay Lightning roster day one, contract details like this always make me laugh:
This doesn’t mean that Stamkos has made the team as he could still be sent back to juniors if he fails to make the team out of camp or is sent back before he plays 10 games next season. If he doesn’t make the team, or plays less than 10 NHL games, his contract would then kick in starting next season, although the 10 percent signing bonus is his to keep. Maximum yearly base is $875,000 with an additional $2.85 in potential bonuses available each year.
From Erik Erlendsson at TBO.com. By the way, if you’ve ever wondered what the performance bonuses available for the Entry Level contracts are, here you go (max of $212,500 can be assigned to each one):
(i) Ice time (aggregate and/or per Game). Player must be among top six (6) forwards on the Club (minimum 42 Regular Season Games played by Player and comparison group). (Note: an Entry Level SPC may contain bonuses for both aggregate and per Game ice time; however, the maximum aggregate amount the Player may receive on account of the ice time category is $212,500.)
(ii) Goals: 20 Goal Minimum
(iii) Assists: 35 Assist Minimum
(iv) Points: 60 Point Minimum
(v) Points Per Game: .73 Points Per Game Minimum (minimum 42 Regular Season Games played)
(vi) Plus-Minus Rating: Among top three (3) forwards on the Club (minimum 42 Regular Season Games played by Player and comparison group).
(vii) End-of-Season NHL All-Rookie Team
(viii) NHL All-Star Game (selected to play or plays)
(ix) NHL All-Star Game MVP
These are the details from the CBA, specific to forwards. H/T to Puck Daddy for getting me started looking at all this.
NHL Nerdity - Roster Limits
Jul 11, 2008 NHL
Jay Levin has an article up at the Nashville Predators’s site going into detail about the NHL’s roster limit rules. If you ever wondered how many players could be under contract, how they keep track of signed versus unsigned as far as limits, exceptions for college players, check it out. Pretty interesting. It’s all part of a series they will be running about the parts of the CBA.
Sabres and Bills Stuff
I’ve been offline for a few days thanks to my parents being in town (and having a huge birthday party for my son and my daughter’s Christening), but if you are looking for recent Buffalo sports news, Kevin and dave in rocha over at BfloBlog have been doing some excellent work. Every Team Is Awesome But Ours dispels the MSM mindset that every other team in the NHL has things going their way more than the Sabres. “Long-term Contracts” rebuts the minor but oft-repeated point about the Sabres being ‘cheap’. Finally, Who’s the Dummy Now? gives Ralph Wilson (Buffalo Bills owner) some love for speaking out against the NFL CBA back in ‘06, the one the owners just unanimously voted to opt-out of. I’ll be back soon with my look at the Stanley Cup finals and any other cool stuff I missed while throwing down a huge carnival B-Day party for my boy.
Tags: B-Lo Sports, bills, cba, football, Hockey, NFL, NHL, ralph wilson, sabres
