[MegaErtz]

Everyone is complaining about Tampa Bay being so far over the cap, but the real cap cheats are cheap owners that take on contracts that were frontloaded, so although this guy's cap hit is $5.5 million per year for the next two years, my understanding is that the actual money he'll be paid is 2.1m this season and 1.5m the next. The Oilers will take a 5.5m cap hit each season but only pay him 3.6m total.

Shea Weber has a similar contract. He's due 6 million this upcoming season, 3 million the next, and then one million for each of the next three seasons. His cap hit is $7.857m per year, so some team is going to get credit towards hitting the cap floor of $7.857m in each of those last three seasons, while only having to pay him $1m per year.

Funny how all these overpaid, over the hill bums end up on Canadian teams so that the owners can claim that they're spending to the cap. No coincidence that no Canadian team has won a Stanley Cup in twenty-eight years.