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Originally Posted by stang
775 cap hit this year. Any bonuses he achieves count towards next year when the cap rises 9 mil
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That's not quite correct.
If, without bonuses, the team's cap expenditures comes to 82.5M and the total bonuses achieved by the players is 4M, the first 1M would be "used" to reach the 83.5M cap of the 2023-2024 season, the remaining 3M would be bonus overage for the 2024-2025 season. You can only have 7.5% of the cap earmarked for bonus though before the excess becomes cap for that year.
It's one of the drawbacks for the LTIR teams that exceed the cap so all bonuses received that year are calculated for the cap for the following year, but currently the Oilers aren't up against the cap or utilizing LTIR. They will end up a cap team, but they are equally likely to implode and sell everything at the deadline so it's no guarantee that they will exceed the cap by his bonus overage.