Perhaps it's moot for a few more years, but I'm wondering about lockout protection deals with big signing bonuses.
Say there's a lockout after 3 seasons - effective Sep 15, 2022. Marner would receive a 7.25M signing bonus on July 1, 2022...Any escrow amount short of 100% would mean he could be getting far more money than he's entitled to (assuming $0.00 HRR for a cancelled season). Even on the premise of a shortened season, it seams unlikely that escrow would be sufficient to make the bonus fall in line with eventual HRR number?
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