Bonus concerns... Insight.

[Savoir_Faire_18]

Been looking into this after so many mention how the salary cap will take a hit from this years success.

Every salary cap has an allotment for bonuses. The Performance Bonus Cushion allows a team to exceed the Upper Limit by up to 7.5% due to performance bonuses. All performance bonuses, earned or not, count against the cap. If a bonus becomes impossible to achieve, then the team gets a cap credit back for the remainder of that season. At the end of the year, if the actual bonuses earned cause the team to exceed the Upper Limit, that excess is applied against the following seasons cap. Doing the math on the salary cap it allows for roughly $4.4 million in bonuses.

 

[Captain Iago]

Ok, this whole thing is confusing as m&ms in fish shit to me.

So, if I understand correctly, the only way the organization would be paying next year for this year's successes would be if net bonuses surpassed 4.4 million?

 

[Savoir_Faire_18]

My bad Captain... $4.2 million is the figure. And yes. If the performance bonuses exceed it overflows into next season.

 

[Captain Iago]

In looking at the 09-10 numbers, the only two bonuses listed (and could possibly be hit) is Toews and Kane for a total of 5mil (Skille and Fallon had recorded bonuses is in there, but highly unlikely they earned substantial amounts of their bonuses).

They each probably hit some of both, and probably not all; therefore is it wrong of me to assume that all of the fairly recent bonus mayhem moot? Some people really went off the deep end (jealous much?).

 

[N3]

Ok, this whole thing is confusing as m&ms in fish shit to me.

So, if I understand correctly, the only way the organization would be paying next year for this year's successes would be if net bonuses surpassed 4.4 million?

I really have no idea what this means, aside from its not something you see....but that shit was hilarious.