After days weeks months of fan angst and back and forth reporting in the media (that definitely wasn’t negotiating), we’ve got an opening day announcement of a 7-year, $57.5m deal for Brady Tkachuk. For those reaching for their calculators, that’s an average value of $8.214m per season.
Notably, that’s not the cap hit though. Because the contract was signed two days after the start of the season, the cap hit is $8,291,486 this season and $8,208,571 for each of the remaining six seasons.
The actual structure is middle-loaded. It starts with $4m this season and $6.