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Originally Posted by sureLoss
Sorry I wrote my previous post wrong Drouin's cap hit is $500k less then Knights'. Meant to write .5M. You may have a point on the numbers CapGeek cites itself as the source.
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Yeah, I figured out that the numbers I was talking about were messed up and fixed my post.
I don't really understand it, but if you look at last year's first rounders, it appears that Yakupov is the only one in the top 5 who actually signed a full rookie-max contract (same with Hall and Nugent-Hopkins for their draft classes). A few players have $2.3M for performance bonuses, so there must be some logic to it that I'm missing (there's probably some of the "B" bonuses that are virtually impossible to get, so teams don't even offer them). If the players are happy, who are we to question it?
In Knight's case, as a college grad, he had the option of refusing to sign now and going to free agency in August, so offering him the maximum makes sense if it lets you get it wrapped up earlier. Plus, in Knight's case, it's unlikely he'll earn any "A" bonuses (which pretty much require a player to be on his team's top 2 lines), and he'd need to be the second coming of Joe Nieuwendyk to get any "B" bonuses.