This is all bad for Johnny.... it's a badly structured contract, there are no signing bonuses to make it at least a little more buyout proof, he will lose the full 1/3 if something was to happen to his performance, which brings me to my second point. I don't think Johnny has players around him to help make his style of hockey succeed there, I think Johnny's stats are going south with him.
When you move away from your original team, there are some players that just never get back up to that level of play again - I hope I'm wrong about Johnny, but I think he may have signed his way into that situation. I would see things differently if he went to the New York Rangers for example.
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