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Originally Posted by The Fonz
Won't Drouin's cap hit be 3.75m?
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no. There's been a change in the last CBA, I think this was done to prevent teams from using bonuses to reach the cap floor (like the Islanders did with Niederreiter a couple years ago). Bonuses only start to count against the cap once a team exceeds the cushion of 7.5 percent of the salary cap. So with a salary cap of $69m, teams have a bonus cushion of $5.1m. Even if Drouin (whose max bonus figure is 2.3m), Namestnikov, Kucherov and Vasilevski all make the team, they'll be far below that figure.
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Originally Posted by Capgeek
Under the collective bargaining agreement struck in 2013, a performance bonus cushion is in place for all years of the deal, including the last one in 2021-22.
The performance bonus cushion allows teams to exceed the upper limit with performance bonuses to a maximum of 7.5 percent of the upper limit. For example, if the upper limit is $64,300,000, teams can exceed it by $4,822,500 in performance bonuses. Any performances bonuses in excess of that total do not fall into the cushion and are counted as part of the team's cap payroll.
Any performance bonuses actually earned at season's end (ie. for games played, awards, all-star teams, etc.) are then added to the team's final cap payroll. The catch with the cushion is that if the bonuses earned at year's end push the team past the upper limit, the overage is carried over as a penalty the following season.
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