[Signing] Coyotes sign Clayton Keller to ELC

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Originally Posted by tsquared1967

Not sure if this true or not. According to Capfriendly.com the contract does burn a year and has only two years left on the ELC next year. Can someone else shed some light on this?

getbak is correct.

Where on capfriendly are you seeing it does burn a year?

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Capfriendly and NHLNumbers have 3 years ELC with years 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-2020 as RFA year.

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Originally Posted by tsquared1967

Capfriendly and NHLNumbers have 3 years ELC with years 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-2020 as RFA year.

They show that for all contracts signed. They don't actually slide the contracts in their database until the playoffs are over. Capfriendly marks all contracts that can slide with a

The Flames have 3 contracts that will slide next season in Kylington, Schneider, and Andersson. Assuming they don't get 10 NHL games in before the Flames are eliminated in the playoffs.

It is impossible for the Coyotes to burn a year of Keller's contract because there isn't enough games left in the Coyotes' season.