Merrith
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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- 7,361
I would be shocked if his cap hit is more than 1/4th of that 60M in 2017 with the way contracts are written today. I'd say you should expect a 6 year deal that in reality is a 4 year deal with the last two years having no guaranteed money high base salary and is only there to help spread out the 20M+ he will see in signing bonus and give them the chance to rework the deal and extend him after 4 if he is living up to the contract.
We'll see, with that much cap space and how our GM seems to like to operate, I wouldn't be shocked if they don't go the route of "dodging" a big to moderately big cap hit the first 2 years. His deal is going to be very interesting to watch how it's structured anyways...with the guaranteed money a major factor.