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Originally Posted by Parallex
You are. You can't buy out bonus money and Corey had a lockout protection signing bonus for the 2020-2021 season. If he played for the ducks for the last two years of his contract he'd make 12M, as a result of the buyout the ducks will instead be paying him (real dollars)... 11M. If Corey Perry plays the next two years at league minimum he'll make more money then he would have had he not been bought out.
Corey Perry is an ass but he's an ass with a good agent.
Edit: https://www.capfriendly.com/buyout-c...or/corey-perry |
Not quite.
Including the signing bonus, Perry was going to make $15 million if the Ducks kept the contract.
After the buyout he is going to make $11 million including the signing bonus.
So Perry lost $4 million in the buyout.
Maybe Perry and his agent feel comfortable that they are going to get most if not all of that $4 million back in the next contract or Perry is comfortable in losing some of that money to choose where he plays.