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Originally Posted by jonesy
Doesn't that just mean the AHL salary is essentially the guaranteed minimum? There is no way to just make the AHL salary?
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The AHL salary is what is paid out during the season.
If a guy has a $200k AHL salary and a $300k guaranteed minimum and spends the whole year in the minors, he gets the $200k over the course of the year and then the rest of it at the end to make it a full $300k.
If, however, the guy spends enough time on the NHL roster earning at a $700k rate to make a total of $300k (at least) over the course of the season between the NHL and the AHL, then no additional payout is required.
Take a look at Zac Rinaldo's last few contracts, for an example:
https://www.capfriendly.com/players/zac-rinaldo
2019-20 with Calgary: NHL salary of $700k. AHL salary of $175k. Minimum guaranteed salary of $225k.
2018-19 with Nashville: NHL salary of $650k. AHL salary of $200k. Minimum guaranteed salary of $300k.
2017-18 with Arizona: NHL salary of $700k. AHL salary of $100k. Minimum guaranteed salary of $175k.
All blended contracts.
Kirkland, however, did not have one last season.
https://www.capfriendly.com/players/justin-kirkland
2019-20 with Calgary: NHL salary of $700k. AHL salary of $90k.
Kirkland spent the entire year with Stockton so he pulled home $90k. However, if he had a minimum guaranteed salary like Rinaldo of, say, $125k, he would have received an additional $35k at the end of the season.
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Originally Posted by bubbsy
how'd we get Kirkland again?
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signed him as a UFA after he wasn't qualified by Nashville.