I saw someone else run the numbers like this the other day:
The NHL Salary Cap is $71.4M.
Divided by an NHL team, that makes the average salary really close to $3M per.
Obviously, each team needs to pay some players more and some players less. Getting Lance signed for ~$1M below that average for the next few years seems to add-up in my mind.
In our near-term (3-year) pipeline it seems like we will have sub-$2M contracts for Bouma, Bennett, Poirier, Ferland, Jooris, Shore, Granlund, Colborne and a couple of Arnold / Hathaway / other. Money will come off the books for Jones, Raymond, Stajan (maybe Hudler?)
Lance @ $2M works for me.
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