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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NHL All-Star Starting Lineups Announced
Jan 8, 2008 NHL
The starters for the NHL All-Star game (in Atlanta this year) have been announced. The East, to no one’s surprise, is headlined by Sidney Crosby, Vincent Lecavalier and Daniel Alfredsson. The blue line has the Wookiee Chara and Andrei Markov, with the usual suspect in Goal, Martin Brodeur.
Your Western Conference starters are one Vancouver goalie shy of being a Detroit/Calgary sweep. Jarome Iginla, Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg start up front, Dion Phaneuf and Niklas Lidstrom are your D-men, with Roberto Luongo between the pipes.
The game itself is January 27th at 6pm, but leading up on Friday and Saturday there is a youth hockey tournament to showcase how the sport is trying to grow in the South. The skills competition and YoungStars game takes place on Saturday night.
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