Re: TSN: Savard agrees to 7 year deal with Boston

by **SpezDispenser** on Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:17 pm

dennycrane wrote:I'm sure it's a front-loaded contract where Savard gets about 600K in each of the final 2 years.

Probably.

by Guest on Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:20 pm

SpezDispenser wrote:
N4L wrote:What a cap hit for Savard. Ugggggh.

1.We signed the contracts for Heatley and Spezza a year too early (not our fault) and it's gonna cost us cap space big time.

2.He'll be 40 when the contract ends as opposed to early 30s for Spezza and Heately.

3.Holy Dung, what a cap hit.

Thats it right there, Spezza had a loooong way to go before UFA status at the time as well... it's a bad contract for Ottawa.

by **marakh** on Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:57 pm

Thomas/Rask, Chara and Savard are the core. I don'T think they win a lot of games if one of them has a bad game/is injured, so there's no really consensus MVP IMO.

by shabbs on Tue Dec 01, 2009 8:31 pm

Woah! Front loaded says what? Check out the breakdown....

Marc Savard deal official now. He gets $7M, $7M, $6.5M, $5M, $1.5M, $525K, $525K. That's $25.5 for first four years.

ZOW!!!

by **marakh** on Tue Dec 01, 2009 8:45 pm

Even at 7Million for 4 years it would have been decent. It's a great signing for the B'S.