If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. This website is not directly or indirectly affiliated, associated, or connected in any way to Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League or the National Hockey League. That leaves exactly enough space for the bonuses. However, because the first year of the contract contains a signing bonus, that effect is largely wiped out. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. When the deal expires, Nylander will be earning a salary of $6 million, which by then will seem comically small, and his cap hit in the final year is just under $7 million, which won’t seem large either. All Rights Reserved. By age 20, he'd already been to a lot of NHL cities. The Leafs also will likely benefit next season by not having any performance bonuses earned this year roll into next year. Most teams trading for a top-line player are worried about their cap hit, not their cashflow. By this summer, when these decisions will actually be made, they’ll know how this works out on the ice, and if they need to rethink it at all. While the Leafs have $5.3 million in LTIR space available, they aren’t using it and are nowhere near the salary cap upper limit. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. It’s weird how the math works out on this deal. Also, by disabling these cookies you will also disable banner ads served by Google Adsense on this website.. For more information about these items, view our complete privacy policy.Read More. In this case the year-one signing bonus has two other effects: since Nylander is not actually paid the full amount of his base salary as shown above, but instead receives an amount pro-rated by the number of days he’s on the roster, the bigger the signing bonus, the less he loses. That’s not likely to change. If he had signed that six-year $7 million deal last July, he could have an identical deal two or three years from now to what this one will be. He also had six goals and 13 points in 22 games with the Maple Leafs, making the transition from a young talent learning the pro ropes step-by-step, to a member of a talented young NHL team that's expected to perform, night after night. They need to re-sign Matthews, Marner, and Jake Gardiner out of that and add in some depth players and a backup goalie to get under the upper limit which is projected to be around $82 million. The Maple Leafs and mapleleafs.com are trademarks of MLSE. His salary in year-one is reduced by just over $3 million. In all, Michael played 920 games with seven NHL teams. To see the rest of the William Nylander's contract breakdowns, & gain access to all of Spotrac's Premium tools, sign up today. Ilya Mikheyev’s arbitration hearing date is set. At the end of the day, how tradable a player is and how much a team wants to trade him depends on his actual production on the ice relative to his cost in cap hit not salary. Keeping the bonuses from rolling over is not a requirement, it’s just a nice-to-have.