Roberts Signs With Tampa Bay

Matt Bodenschatz | National Hockey League

Jun 30, 11:11 AM | Hype this story!

TSN is reporting that, shortly after the Tampa Bay Lightning locked in Ryan Malone for seven years, they signed Gary Roberts to a much shorter contract.

Roberts, signed to a one-year contract, will earn $1.25 in base salary, with a $10,000 bonus for every game played.

Comments

  1. tom

    Jun 30, 11:21 AM

    How does Roberts’ 10k/game bonus work with the cap?

  2. Matt Bodenschatz

    Jun 30, 11:27 AM

    I’m not sure how it would work, though I would assume it would follow the same template a typical bonus would utilize.

  3. Pens1967

    Jun 30, 12:42 PM

    I took from some of Roberts’ post-season comments, that he was very frustrated with all the injuries he had these last several years. I think he wants to go out on an injury-free note. Obviously, he wasn’t going to get that chance in Pgh.

  4. Michael Farkas

    Jun 30, 02:01 PM

    Gary Roberts will count for $2,070,000 against the club’s Upper Limit. That much is certain. Now, for achievable bonuses, the rule of thumb is: “they count against the Upper Limit until they are mathematically unachievable.” In Roberts case, it seems that $10,000 per game missed would be deducted from the club’s Upper Limit as the season progresses. As for now, however, he will count $2,070,000 against the cap ($1,250,000 in base salary plus $820,000 in achievable bonuses).

    It should also be noted that a club may exceed the Upper Limit to the tune of 7.5% if achievable performance bonuses are what put the club over the Upper Limit. Any figure that exceeds $56.7 million under this provision will count as dead space against next year’s Upper Limit (see: 2006 Atlanta Thrashers, re: Bondra, Peter)

  5. Michael Farkas

    Jun 30, 06:27 PM

    Scratch that 7.5% overage stuff, that is no longer in effect because the CBA is eligible to be re-opened, so just not this year.

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