It has been a very good summer season to be a younger NHL participant in want of a brand new contract.
Columbus Blue Jackets ahead Adam Fantilli grew to become the most recent participant to money in on Thursday, lastly signing a brand new contract to get him into camp earlier than the beginning of the 2026-27 season.
The 21-year-old was one in all three unsigned restricted free brokers nonetheless remaining this preseason, and he was lastly in a position to get a six-year, $82.5 million contract. That comes out to a $13.75 million salary-cap quantity that may make him, by common yearly wage, the fifth-highest-paid participant within the NHL this season.
Blue Jackets pay Adam Fantilli, and now he has to supply
When it comes to what Fantilli has completed thus far within the NHL, the $13.5 million salary-cap quantity looks like an outrageous quantity. In earlier offseasons, it will have been. However the NHL has modified dramatically this summer season as a result of fast rise of the league’s wage cap within the coming seasons, in addition to among the different contracts which have already been signed.
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